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...Harvard almost chose me," said Albers, who originally did not plan to apply here. He was considering either Santa Clara or Notre Dame when he received a call from the Crimson baseball coach. Albers then called the soccer coach, who seemed interested...
Like many medical researchers, Snowdon has cultivated an affectionate, intensely personal relationship with his subjects, all members of a Roman Catholic religious order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Before his group publishes a new paper, Snowdon carefully makes the rounds of all the convents to make sure the sisters hear the news first. About a month ago, for example, he stopped by the rambling brick convent in Mankato, Minnesota, which serves as the headquarters for one of the order's seven U.S. provinces. "You've got to be good friends before you ask somebody for their brain," he jokes...
...calling attention to the unhealthy synergy between Alzheimer's and stroke, the School Sisters of Notre Dame have performed an enormous service. But they're not yet finished with their work. Long-term epidemiological studies, like fine wines, improve with age, and thus new findings from the Nun Study can be expected to enrich medical knowledge for many years to come. Indeed, long after he and his colleagues retire, Snowdon imagines, nuns like Sister Mary will continue to enlighten Alzheimer's researchers. This, of course, is the point. "These women were teachers all their lives," says Snowdon, "and now they...
...Richard McBrien feels that we have quite enough heaven now, thank you. McBrien, a liberal Catholic theologian at the University of Notre Dame who has skirmished on occasion with the Vatican but whose theological and historical grasp few would question, believes that before the Vatican II reforms of the mid-1960s, his church had slipped into the lazy role of using heaven and hell as "stories meant to encourage and frighten." Catholicism's once vivid otherworldliness had devolved into a sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse...
...like a second-class sibling--well cared for, perhaps, but not well loved. Do you prohibit the family from cloning the first daughter, accepting the fact that you may be condemning her to die? Richard McCormick, a Jesuit priest and professor of Christian ethics at the University of Notre Dame, answers such questions simply and honestly when he says, "I can't think of a morally acceptable reason to clone a human being...