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ND in the News: 2023

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  1. The claim that a hammer is used for tapping on the pope's head is “a legend," though one that has been "repeated countless times as early as the 1850s," said Ulrich Lehner, a University of Notre Dame theology professor.

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    Ulrich Lehner

    Department of Theology

  2. Robert Schmuhl is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame and adjunct professor at Dublin City University.

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    Robert Schmuhl

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  3. Erika Doss, a professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame who has written extensively about monuments, said that Americans increasingly see recognizing individuals as critical. “We see ourselves as a nation of individuals, so listing the names becomes unifying,” she said. But she wondered how so solemn a gesture could have gotten so flawed this time. She asked, “Didn’t they have an editor?”

  4. “The time is now right to take a giant leap by using the moon to learn how to live off the land, thus enabling sustained human presence on Earth while stimulating a new sector of our economy,” Clive Neal, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, told the National Space Council in 2019. 

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    Clive Neal Portrait

    Clive Neal

    Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

  5. Gabriel Radle, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, said the zinc coffin confers a certain prestige while also helping to preserve the body, which would be exhumed if that pope is formally declared “blessed.” 

  6. “It was a real break with precedent and very unlike a pope that took the Church’s tradition very seriously,” said John McGreevy, who is also provost at the University of Notre Dame. “It was one of the great things he did.”

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    John McGreevy

    History

  7. According to a study led by the Notre Dame researcher David Medvigy, a similar pattern could emerge if the Amazon stops recycling its own moisture, as the dry air would travel north in winter.

  8. Quick connections to other neighborhoods and downtown also provide access to jobs, government services said hospitals, said Gwendolyn Purifoye, a professor at the University of Notre Dame who lives in Chicago and has researched transit. 

  9. John McGreevy, a historian of the modern Catholic church at the University of Notre Dame and author of “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis,” said that it was clear Benedict was influenced by growing up under an authoritarian regime.

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  10. "I think they know they gambled and lost and that they have to do something serious in order to get inflation back under control” said Jeffrey Campbell, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame and former Federal Reserve economist. “I fear that they took a gamble that inflation wasn’t too real at the beginning of 2021."

  11. Such concerns are part of a fraught relationship between wolves and humans in North America, said Jon T. Coleman, an environmental history professor at the University of Notre Dame. 

  12. John McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost at the University of Notre Dame, who recently published the book Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, commented that in some ways Benedict’s death marks the end of the post-Vatican II era.

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