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ND in the News: October 2021

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    José Antonio Montenegro talks with Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, professor of political science and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, about the electoral denial in the United States without any real basis and the doubts about the 2020 elections. (José Antonio Montenegro conversa con Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, profesor de ciencia política y asuntos globales de la Universidad de Notre Dame, sobre la negación electoral en Estados Unidos sin fundamento real y las dudas sobre las elecciones de 2020.)

  2. David Campbell, a political science professor at University of Notre Dame, said the country has come a long way from its first Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, who had to convince Protestants of his independence from the Catholic Church.

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    David Campbell

    Political Science

  3. Timothy O’Malley, director of education at the University of Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life who researches and teaches in the areas of marriage and family, explained that he believes society might be reaching a point of stasis in how far marriage will decline in the U.S.

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    Timothy O'Malley

    McGrath Institute for Church Life

  4. Theologians, scholars and clergy gathered for the 2021 Black Catholic Theological Symposium at the University of Notre Dame Oct. 7-9 in South Bend, Indiana, where speakers affirmed the activism of the Black Lives Matter movement and called for an embrace of an "authentically Black and radical" Catholic tradition.

  5. Sophie Shive, an associate professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame, said more stringent transparency rules would help good private equity firms differentiate themselves in a murky industry and win new investors.

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    Sophie Shive

    Sophie Shive

    Mendoza College of Business

  6. Kimberly Belcher, an associate professor of liturgical studies at the University of Notre Dame, said the practice of eucharistic adoration stemmed from people gazing at the Eucharist at Mass and having a spiritual experience.

  7. Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Timothy O'Malley

    McGrath Institute for Church Life

  8. Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins called Donnelly “an ideal choice to represent the United States at the Vatican.”

  9. "Joe has been an exemplary public servant in Congress, an invaluable friend of Notre Dame and of me personally, and he is an ideal choice to represent the United States at the Vatican," said Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins.

  10. Notre Dame President Father John I. Jenkins extended his congratulations to Donnelly on Friday.

  11. QAnon has had a hold on white evangelical communities, in part because of its apocalyptic message, and the focus on Trump as a messianic figure who will usher in a new era, says Dr. Jason A. Springs, a professor of religion at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Professor Jimmy Gurulé of Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over state secrets in the torture of Abu Zubaydah, the first “War on Terror” detainee subjected to torture abroad by U.S. intelligence.

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    Jimmy Gurulé

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  13. Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins, celebrated Donnelly’s nomination in a statement published on the school’s website.

  14. “It does feel novel for the federal government to sue a state on this relatively diffuse basis,” said University of Notre Dame law professor Samuel Bray. “But novel things happen. The way the Texas statute is set up is novel. Novel serve, novel return.”

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