Amid Clash with Notre Dame Administration, Students Pray for Life with Bishop Rhoades at University Grotto

Amid clash with Notre Dame administration, students pray for life with Bishop Rhoades at university grotto

The prayer event and a protest to be held Feb. 27 on campus are part of a corrective movement directed "out of love" toward the university's administration.

Bishop Rhoades leads students in Rosary at Notre Dame grotto to pray for school’s Catholic identity

As the University of Notre Dame continues to draw criticism for its promotion of a pro-abortion professor, Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, led students in the Rosary Feb. 24 at the campus’ grotto to pray for the preservation of the school’s Catholic identity.  About 50 people joined the bishop in prayer at...

Bishop Rhoades celebrates Mass, leads Rosary for life at Notre Dame amid professor controversy

Students will hold a 'March on the Dome' this Friday night protesting the promotion of a pro-abortion professor that the university has refused to rescind.

Bishop Rhoades Leads Rosary for Notre Dame’s Catholic Identity Amid Appointment Uproar

Bishop Kevin Rhoades (right) kneels with student organizers at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes on the campus of the University of Notre Dame during a Rosary for the university's Catholic identity on Feb. 24, 2026. The prelate prayed the Rosary with students at Notre Dame’s iconic grotto as pressure mounts on the university to reverse its appointment of a pro-abortion professor to lead an academic institute.

Amid clash with Notre Dame administration, students pray for life with Bishop Rhoades at university grotto - The Leaven Catholic Newspaper

Two weeks after calling on the University of Notre Dame to withdraw its appointment of pro-abortion professor Susan Ostermann as head of one of the school's research centers, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend joined students to pray for life at the university's Marian grotto. The post Amid clash with Notre Dame administration, students pray for life with Bishop Rhoades at university grotto appeared first on The Leaven Catholic New…