Footprints, the official newsletter of Notre Dame's Right to Life Club, offers important information on the HHS healthcare mandate and includes:

• Basic information on the mandate
• A timeline on Notre Dame's relationship and response to the mandate
• The message from Fr. Jenkins on Notre Dame's lawsuit regarding the mandate
• and more!

Lift Up Your Hearts: Seminars for Liturgical and Spiritual Formation 

The Notre Dame Center for Liturgy (in conjunction with the STEP) is now offering a series of online seminars, entitled Lift Up Your Hearts:  Seminars in Liturgical and Spiritual Formation. 

The purpose of these seminars is to provide an inexpensive option for educating Christians in the art of prayer.  

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Resource for Deacons and Catechists

The latest Church Life: A Journal for the New Evangelization from the Institute for Church Life offers great article for ministers in the Church.  Two excellent articles worth checking out are:

1. Evangelizing Culture: To Improve Catholic Homilies, Part 1- One Point at a Time By Dr. Christian Smith
 
2. On Teaching Christianity by Dr. John Cavadini.
 

We wish to acknowledge the students who have successfully completed the STEP Certificate Program in Catholic Theology for the 2011-2012 Academic Year.  

Congratulations on your accomplishment!

What's New at STEP? 

Software Upgrade 

The June session of courses all ran in the new Sakai software.  Listen to what people are saying about the new software:   

"Sakai - MUCH MUCH better than Blackboard - even works well on my Android."

"The chat is easy in this new format compared to the old black board ???? site."

"I like the Sakai software--takes some getting used to, and I do miss a few of the features in the old software (being able to see if someone has responded to one of your posts specifically, jumping in and out of threads of chat) but overall the improvements far outweigh the missed features. I look forward to getting better with this software in future courses!"

"GREAT NEW INTERFACE!"   

"...the new software is great."

"Once I became accustom to the new software, I found it was very easy to use.  I believe it is a step up from the Concourse software."

Upcoming Courses 

The Church  

Year of Faith

YEAR OF FAITH - Pope Benedict XVI has declared a   "Year of Faith" to begin October 11, 2012. Find out all about it in this Q&A from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). 

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Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship

 

ARE YOU A FAITHFUL CITIZEN? - How well do you know the issues and understand the Church's teaching on them? Take the U.S. Bishop's quiz and test your knowledge!

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Helpful Links

 

The USCCB recently added a easy-to-use online E-Book of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.   

   

Link to Catechism