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ND in the News: June 2021

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  1.  On my podcast this week, professor Timothy O’Malley offers this insight: “If you want to know how Timothy O’Malley deals with this question of eucharistic coherence: Timothy O’Malley is very concerned about Timothy O’Malley.” This kind of self-reflection is essential for navigating the current debate.

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    Timothy O'Malley

    McGrath Institute for Church Life

  2. The Rev. Austin Collins, a professor of sculpture at the University of Notre Dame, has been named vice president for mission engagement and church affairs.

  3. A marvelous review in these pages last November inspired me to read a new book by O. Carter Snead, “What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Human Bioethics.”

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  4. “We hear all the time about divisions and polarization and culture wars and all that stuff. But this is a 9-0 ruling in a case involving religion and gay rights. And that’s significant,” says Richard Garnett, director of the Program on Church, State, and Society at the University of Notre Dame 91Ƶ of Law, referring to the foster parent case.

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    Richard Garnett

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  5. "It's been implicit in some of the things the court has been doing in recent years, especially in these COVID cases," said 龱󲹰ҲԱٳ, director of the University of Notre Dame law school program on church, state and society.

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    Richard Garnett

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  6. David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the bishops’ vote “reflects the fact that the same fault lines dividing all American voters also divide American Catholics — and Catholic leaders.”

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    David Campbell

    Political Science

  7. Kathleen Cummings, a historian at the University of Notre Dame who runs the school’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, said the U.S. Catholic Church for many decades was defined more by questions of how and whether Catholicism — then mostly a faith of immigrants — could fit into America.

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  8. Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett predicted the ruling will not be so limited.

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    Richard Garnett

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  9. “Hong Kong has been left with little free speech under the national security law, which is really aimed at silencing all dissent,” said Victoria Hui, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Victoria Hui

    Political Science

  10. Richard Garnett, law school professor at the University of Notre Dame and director of the university’s Program on Church, State and Society, said the Supreme Court’s  ruling will have a significant impact.

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    Richard Garnett

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  11. "It is striking, and telling, that the court's more liberal justices joined the court's decision," said 龱󲹰ҲԱٳ, director of the University of Notre Dame law school program on church, state and society. "Today's ruling illustrates that respect for religious freedom should not be a partisan, or left-right issue."

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    Richard Garnett

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  12. Legal scholars disagree about what the scale of the decision’s impact might be. “Today’s ruling is highly significant,” said Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ Professor Richard Garnett in a statement, pointing out that it veered from three decades of decisions that tended to disfavor religious liberty.

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    Richard Garnett

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