Where credit is due

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 Patrick called home yesterday. It was our first chance to talk after his return from Monday's March for Life in Washington, D.C.  He had a great trip.

So much so that he wasn't even all that disappointed to hear that our next home will likely be in the D.C. area. This  is not definite by any stretch of the imagination; we are just running out of time on other options, and John hasn't heard from anyplace-yet. But as much as that is always on my mind, it isn't the subject of this post, so...

Notre Dame, Patrick reported, took seven busloads of students and faculty to the march.  Seven!  He had a chance to see an old Misawa friend one day there. He visited museums, prayed at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, and stopped by to see my brother and his wife, who are "dorm parents" in the honors dorm on the Catholic University of America campus. He spent most of the weekend with a couple of guys from his architecture program, and the three of them also dropped by the arkie studio while they were on the CUA campus to meet their competition compatriots.

Photo credit: Notre Dame Right to Life

The next day they and more than 300 others from Notre Dame joined the March for Life.

Photo credit: Notre Dame Right to Life

This article gives more details. If their information is correct, Notre Dame had more people there than any other college or university. To be fair, we're not talking about percentages. Christendom College, of Front Royal, VA, would win that contest. They cancel classes and bring their entire student body every year. But when you consider that the Notre Dame trip involves getting excused from classes, taking two overnight bus rides and sleeping in a parish hall,

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it's pretty impressive to see such a large number from ND.  I'm grateful to the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Fund to Protect Human Life for making this possible for Patrick and so many other ND students.

The administration gets a lot wrong with regard to being a Catholic beacon in our dark culture, but the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture is making sure that on the issue of life, they are getting things very right.

Deo gratias.