Fr. Jenkins

Fr. John Jenkins briefly address the Notre Dame community via a live YouTube stream.

HERE Comes the Clusterfuck

August 19, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

A hearty hat-tip to our ACC brethren over at The Daily Tar Heel for the headline inspriation. I think of no better way to describe the current situation at Notre Dame, especially after Fr. John Jenkins addressed the Notre Dame community in a disappointing example of leadership. Feel free to watch the speech in its entirety below. It will take you less time to watch it than it would have to read his op-ed to bring students back to campus which I tore apart months ago. ...

See, it's funny because it's true. Credit: Angelica Ketcham & Joshua Cepeda

What Is Going on HERE?!

August 13, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

When I decided to devote time to writing about Notre Dame football, I never imaged that I'd write a post to cancel a season. I never imaged that, after a long layoff of no posting, my return would involve taking ND's president to task. I certainly didn't imagine that there would be two non-football posts as the bread to this shit sandwich. But HERE we are. Spending any time around social media this week has revealed some rather disturbing stories as to just how not-great the COVID response ...

Notre Dame, It’s Time to Lead: Cancel the Season

August 8, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

I hope everyone enjoyed the brief respite of our pandemic reality in Friday's post. The fun's over. The headline above isn't clickbait. It's my 100% God's-honest belief. I'm not looking to play the anti-Clay Travis for traffic (if we actually cared about pageviews in this climate, we would've posted more). It's time to cease beating around the bush or having this site remain silent while we make fleeting quips on Twitter about the season's impending doom. Yes, I've called out Fr. Jenkins ...

Fr. John Jenkins address the class of 2018 image via YouTube

Questionable Morality

May 27, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

Yesterday, Father John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame, penned an article through the New York Times opinion page. You might have recognized it under its original title "Science Alone Could Not Tell Us Whether to Reopen Notre Dame" (which didn't even survive twelve hours). The article houses not just Notre Dame's plan for trying to safely reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the logic, or more specifically, the cited philosophical musings around the morality of education during said ...