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PBS
April 23, 2025
Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame
BBC News
April 23, 2025
But some African Catholics do not like this emphasis on origin - like Father Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor, a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. "It's like people are saying, 'OK, so Africans are growing in these numbers, so why don't we give them a pope,'" he told me.
The Guardian
April 22, 2025
According to experts, more spot-on than not, and at the very least meticulously researched. “They got a lot of the details right,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a historian of Catholicism at Notre Dame who closely followed the election of Pope Francis in 2013.
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National Catholic Reporter
April 22, 2025
Holy Cross Fr. Robert Dowd, president of the University of Notre Dame, said Francis inspired many "through his heroic and prophetic ministry."
USA Today
April 22, 2025
In February 2024, Francis met with the trustees of the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution in Indiana. The school's president, the Rev. Robert A. Dowd, said in a statement Monday that the pope instructed them to continue educating students through "'three languages: the head, the heart and the hands.'"
The Washington Post
April 22, 2025
John McGreevy, a University of Notre Dame historian of global Catholicism, said it’s hard to know what will endure. “On all [the] things [Francis did], I think there are no guarantees,” he said.
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History
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The Washington Post
April 22, 2025
“When the government seeks to instruct students about value-laden sexuality and gender issues in a way that contradicts their parents’ religious instruction, without telling the parents or providing an opt-out, the parents’ First Amendment rights have been burdened,” said the brief from legal experts, including University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock and Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Richard Garnett.
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CNN
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April 22, 2025
University of Notre Dame President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., discusses the legacy of Pope Francis after his death on The Arena with Kasie Hunt on CNN.
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CNN
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April 22, 2025
John T. McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost of the University of Notre Dame, discusses the relationship Pope Francis had with U.S. Presidents during his papacy with Jake Tapper on CNN.
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History
Associated Press
April 21, 2025
“It’s almost certainly the case we’re collecting less than that,” said Robert Johnson, an associate professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, of Trump’s $2 billion per day figure.
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Department of Economics
The Conversation
April 21, 2025
By Erin Corcoran, professor of immigration, refugee and asylum law at the University of Notre Dame.
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Newsweek
April 21, 2025
David Lantigua, the co-director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and an associate theology professor at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek that the Catholic Church sees the second Trump administration's immigration crackdown as "even more egregious" than the first.
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Theology
America
April 21, 2025
But Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of American studies and history at the University of Notre Dame, said Pope Francis simply tried to bring attention to issues that sometimes failed to attract the same kind of passion among some Catholics.
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The Irish Times
April 21, 2025
Cardinal Farrell joined the Legionaries of Christ in 1966. He studied theology at the University of Salamanca in Spain, the Gregorian University and the Angelicum in Rome. He also studied business and administration at the University of Notre Dame in the US.
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The Conversation
April 21, 2025
In 2024, University of Notre Dame professor David Lantigua had a cup of maté tea with some “porteños,” as people from Buenos Aires are known. They shared a surprising take on the Argentine pope: “a theologian of the tango.”
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Theology
MSNBC
Video
April 21, 2025
Pope Francis was a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church’s conservatives and sometimes strayed from traditional views. Dignity USA Executive Director Marianne Duddy-Burke and professor of American 91视频 and History at Notre Dame University Kathleen Sprows Cummings join Chris Jansing to share more on the impact the Pope’s “transformative” actions and words had on the Church.
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MSNBC
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April 21, 2025
The mourning period is underway for the death of Pope Francis who passed away today at 88 years old. Jesuit Conference President Father Timothy Kesicki, S.J., Professor of American 91视频 and History at Notre Dame University Kathleen Sprows Cummings and American Media President and Editor-in-chief Father Sam Sawyer join Christina Ruffini to discuss Pope Francis' lasting legacy.
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NBC News
Video
April 21, 2025
“Coming from the other side of the world, he brought a different way of seeing the world, and throughout his papacy that was a constant,” said Kathleen Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.
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CBS News
Video
April 21, 2025
CBS News' Melissa Mahtani discusses what happens next at the Vatican and Rev. Daniel Groody, vice president and provost at the University of Notre Dame, has more on Pope Francis' legacy.
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Inside Indiana Business
April 21, 2025
Rev. Robert Dowd, president of the University of Notre Dame, said the university community joins the world in mourning Pope Francis’ passing. He and the Notre Dame board of trustees last met with the pontiff in February 2024.
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Newsweek
April 21, 2025
"He selected the majority of the cardinals who possess the right to vote," said Ulrich Lehner, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
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Department of Theology
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The Washington Post
April 21, 2025
The tone of Francis’s letter about Vance’s comment was a direct message to U.S. bishops that he was paying attention to the American church and that they should speak out, said John McGreevy, a University of Notre Dame professor and expert on Catholicism.
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The Washington Post
April 21, 2025
“Francis famously called the Church a ‘field hospital,’ not a fortress,” said John McGreevy, author of “Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis” and a Notre Dame historian.
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History
Bloomberg
April 17, 2025
In comparison, credit spreads on corporate-bond debt sold by the University of Notre Dame, another AAA rated college, have not widened in the same way. Notre Dame has largely avoided scrutiny by the Trump administration for its handling of student protests.
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USA Today
April 17, 2025
"There is no provision under U.S. law that would allow the government to kick citizens out of the country," University of Notre Dame professor Erin Corcoran, an immigration law expert, told Reuters.
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Al Jazeera
April 15, 2025
University of Notre Dame professor Erin Corcoran, an immigration law expert, said there is “no provision” under US law “that would allow the government to kick citizens out of the country”.
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Crux
April 15, 2025
“These results indicate that people are really listening to what the pope has to say,” said Lakshmi Iyer, a professor of economics at Notre Dame. “And the topics he addresses really matter.”
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Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs; Department of Economics
phys.org
April 15, 2025
Lakshmi Iyer, a professor in the Department of Economics, found that there was more to fertility rates than a simple economic or circumstantial explanation. According to her research, people are having fewer children due to cultural factors, with social norms playing a larger role than previously thought.
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Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs; Department of Economics
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The Washington Post
April 15, 2025
For many Ecuadorians, a vote for Noboa probably represented a safer option — a vote for continuity and stability, over a fear of return to Correismo, said Ecuadorian political scientist Andrés Mejía Acosta, associate dean for policy and practice at the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
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The Guardian
April 15, 2025
“There is no provision under US law that would allow the government to kick citizens out of the country,” the University of Notre Dame professor Erin Corcoran, an immigration law expert, told Reuters.
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