Over its history, Notre Dame survived and excelled because it was always unafraid of the danger before it and advanced toward its goals unapologetically
184 years ago Fr. Edward Sorin and his compatriots made their way through the wilderness of Indiana and arrived at a pair of frozen lakes covered in snow. Those men of destiny, hewing down timber and clearing snow, labored through the winter, erecting a small log chapel, a beacon of light in an unforgiving landscape on a restless continent.
Their writ, as imparted to them by their Holy Cross superiors, was not to establish a technical college or a research institution or an athletic organization, but rather a Catholic school, committed to being a “force for good” in the world — not in some abstract, secular sense, but through the cultivation of virtuous citizens rooted in the Catholic faith.