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Happening at Holy Cross
by Lisa Kochanowski, Assistant Director of Communications
The Saints & Scholars Summer Theology Institute is a one-week, pre-college program that provides an exciting opportunity for high school students to live on a college campus, have seminar discussions guided by great faculty, and share community-building experiences with other students from around the country. The goal is to support the spiritual and intellectual growth of the next generation of leaders.
This year, due to COVID-19 restrictions, students from only St. Joseph County were invited to participate. Sessions were held during the day only, and no overnight experience was available. “I am very pleased with how our Saints & Scholars 2020 experience went in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. While all necessary health and safety measures were heavily enforced, nothing appeared to be so burdensome on the faculty, mentors, and high school students as to put a “damper” on the experience. On the contrary, the high school students were thrilled to be out of the house and engaging with one another (for many it was their fi rst time having any sort of experience all summer!),” said Andrew Ouellette, Director of the Offi ce of Campus Ministry and Saints & Scholars Institute. “My sincerest hope and prayer is that the students who attended Saints & Scholars 2020 strive in earnest to be authentic and intentional disciples of Jesus Christ so that they might be His hands and feet in bringing healing to the world.”
Anyone interested in becoming a scholar who knows the wisdom of Christian tradition and a saint who has the courage to put that wisdom into action should join us next year.
Constitution Day 2020
Richard Garnett delivered a lecture on “Religious Freedom & the Constitution Today” in September in commemoration of Constitution Day. He is the Paul J. Schierl / Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, Director
of Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society, and Concurrent Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame Law school.
Due to COVID-19 protocol restrictions, we were unable to off er this opportunity to the general public. Instead, the event was live-streamed on the College Facebook page
@HolyCrossCollegeSaints
He is a leading authority on questions and debates regarding the role of religious believers and beliefs in politics and society. He has published widely on these matters and is the author of dozens of law-review articles and book chapters. Garnett is regularly invited to share analysis and commentary in national print and broadcast media, and he contributes to several law-related blogs, including Mirror of Justice and PrawfsBlawg.
Garnett clerked for the late Chief Justice of the United States, William H. Rehnquist, during the Court’s 1996 term and also for the late Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Richard S. Arnold. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995 and his B.A., summa cum laude, from Duke University in 1990. Before joining the Notre Dame, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., with Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin. He has been with the University of Notre Dame since 1999, and served on the Notre Dame Task Force on Catholic Education, is a Fellow of the University’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, and is a regular consultant with the Alliance for Catholic Education.
Garnett is a founding director of the University of Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State, and Society. This interdisciplinary project focuses on the role of religious institutions, communities, and authorities in social order.
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Happening at Holy Cross
I hope that experts like Professor Garnett will provide a compelling and balanced analysis of the Constitution and its relationship to religious freedom, an analysis that is more thoughtful and subtle than what is available in popular sources like talk radio, television, or the blogosphere,” said associate professor of history and department chair Angel
Cortes, Ph.D.
Bishop Rhoades lectured in September
Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of the Diocese of Fort WayneSouth Bend, presented “Faithful Citizenship in a Divided Nation and the Political Responsibility of Catholics” in McKenna Arena, at the Pfeil Center. A limited number of faculty, students, and staff were invited to the event in accord with COVID-19rules and protocols. Due to COVID-19 protocol restrictions, we were unable to off er this opportunity to the public and off ered it live-streamed on the College Facebook page @HolyCrossCollegeSaints.
“As we are witnesses to ongoing strife, division, and disunity, this talk from Bishop Rhoades will be a clarion call for Catholics to lead the way in promoting the Gospel messages of peace, justice, and the reign of Christ the King in our hearts and in our nation,” said Andrew Ouellette, Director of the Offi ce of Campus Ministry.
Holy Cross College inducted 15 new members (14 students and one faculty member) to the Delta Epsilon Sigma (DES) National Scholastic Honor Society in October.
DES is an honor society for students, faculty, and alumni of colleges and universities with a Catholic tradition. The organization was started at the suggestion of Reverend E. A. Fitzgerald, Dean of Studies at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, who in October of 1938 surveyed Catholic colleges and universities concerning their interest in initiating such a society.
Inductees of Holy Cross College’s Epsilon Delta Chapter are required to have completed at least one half of the credit requirements for their bachelor’s degree and rank in the top twenty percent of their class in scholarship. Each year a faculty member speaks at the event, and is then also inducted into the society. This year Deborah Arangno, Ph.D., presented “Sapere Aude.”
Dr. Deborah Arangno joined the mathematics faculty at Holy Cross College in August 2019. She earned a Bachelor of Science from Mercer University with a triple major in mathematics, physics, and Latin, a Master of Science in pure mathematics from Emory University, a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from Utah State University, and completed graduate work at the University of Colorado and post-graduate studies at Stanford University in computer science education. She is currently associate professor and acting director of the mathematics program. She is working to develop the mathematics program at Holy Cross College to include a math minor and a computer science minor.
Congratulation to 2020 student inductees Eleanor Boothman ‘21, Lauren Cernak ‘22, Lauren Compton ‘22, Miles Folsom ‘21, Dominic Gibson ‘22, Dane Litchfi eld ‘23, Jacqueline Lopez ‘21, Shaima Musleh ‘21, Bradley Musselman ‘22, Catherine Oliva ‘21, Mireya Robles ‘22, Dylan Schwaegel ‘21, Sidney Taylor ‘22, and Matteus Webb ‘21.
Due to COVID-19 protocol restrictions, we off ered a livestream of the event to the community.
