ND in the News: December 2025
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The Washington Post
December 23, 2025
“The (Chinese) government is inherently suspicious of religious communities, especially Christian groups,” said Karrie Koesel, an associate professor specializing in Chinese politics and religion at the University of Notre Dame.
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Political Science
BBC News
Audio
December 19, 2025
And we speak to Dr Cara Ocobock (~19 minute mark) at the University of Notre Dame, USA, who tells us about her research comparing Finnish reindeer herders and office workers reactions to cold temperatures.
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Anthropology
OSV News
December 19, 2025
At the University of Notre Dame -- where 82% of incoming first-year students are Catholic -- 125 new Catholics received the sacraments last Easter. It was the largest group there in at least 25 years. Brett Perkins, assistant director for evangelization and religious education in the Office of Campus Ministry, called it "another boom year.
Chicago Tribune
December 17, 2025
John Soares teaches history at the University of Notre Dame.
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Department of History
The New York Times
December 16, 2025
David Campbell, a political science professor at Notre Dame, told me it’s always a mistake to “speak of religion or Christianity writ large, as though it is a monolith.”
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Political Science
WGN
Audio
December 05, 2025
University of Notre Dame Robert & Marion Short Professor of Law Mary Ellen O’Connell provides her legal perspective on whether Pete Hegseth committed a war crime in the Caribbean.
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Notre Dame Law 91视频
National Catholic Reporter
December 04, 2025
By David Lantigua, an associate professor of theology and the co-director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.
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Theology
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The New York Times
December 03, 2025
“He’s not emotive or telling you what he feels all the time,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor who specializes in Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. But “he’s able to be fully present to people.” With Francis, “there was a self-consciousness,” said Ms. Cummings. “What he was doing was going to get attention. It didn’t mean that it was false,” she added. But “Pope Leo doesn’t seem to care about that.”
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American 91视频
The Conversation
December 03, 2025
By Peter J. Quaranto, Visiting Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame, and Josefina Echavarria Alvarez, Professor of the Practice in International Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.