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ND in the News: 2026

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  1. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Father Emmanuel Katongole, a priest and professor of theology at University of Notre Dame, about the significance of Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa this week.

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  2. “I find this trip could not have come at a better time,” said the Rev. Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

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    Emmanuel Katongole

    Department of Theology; Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs

  3. “This is unprecedented criticism of a Pope from a US president,” David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, said via email. Looking far back into world history, Trump’s attempt to “strong-arm Pope Leo” isn’t anything new, said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of American 91视频 and History at Notre Dame.

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    On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," I speak with my friend David Cortright, a leading scholar on war, peace and nonviolent resistance. He is a visiting scholar at Cornell University's Einaudi Center for International 91视频 and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.

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  5. “A year ago, I would not have told you that Anthropic is a company that cares about religious ethics,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame who participated in the gatherings. “That’s changed.”

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  6. Iran’s direct ability to act in the region is limited, notes Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. 

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  7. Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump called off his threat to destroy Iran’s “whole civilization” and agreed to a two-week ceasefire, OSV News spoke with conflict resolution scholar Laurie Nathan of the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频.

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  8. OPINION | By Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies in the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. A priest ordained by the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda, he is the co-founder and president of the Bethany Land Institute, a residential training program in integral ecology in rural Uganda.

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    Emmanuel Katongole

    Emmanuel Katongole

    Department of Theology; Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs

  9. But anecdotes don’t make a national trend. And experts have urged caution: “These stories are a very small drop in a very large ocean, whose currents have for decades been taking people away from religion,” said David Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame who researches secularization.

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    The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara to consider whether President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship was constitutional. Princeton University Center for Migration & Development Research Fellow Phillip Connor and University of Notre Dame Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs Professor Francesc Ortega join Joe Mathieu and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss the economic impact the move could have on the country. 

  11. The evening earlier, on March 19, Alito attended a separate dinner in Washington, DC, celebrating Notre Dame law professor Sherif Girgis, who had received the Edwin Meese Originalism Award from the Meese Institute for the Rule of Law within the Mike Pence-founded organization of Advancing American Freedom. Girgis, also a former Alito clerk, appeared the next day at the March 20 symposium.

  12. Whoever holds the job in the long term will almost certainly be expected to carry out Trump’s retribution campaign with more success, said Jimmy Gurule, a former Justice Department official and law professor at Notre Dame. “If she was fired because Trump did not think that she was moving quickly enough in bringing criminal cases against his political enemies, then you would expect that the person that would replace her would probably agree to escalate those efforts,” Gurule said.

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  13. Lloyd Mayer, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, said the settlement may spur the IRS to continue making exceptions for churches to support or oppose candidates from the lectern. The recent ruling should sustain the Johnson Amendment’s “chilling effect” on pastors, even though IRS enforcement has been rare under the Trump, Biden, and Obama administrations.

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  14. Amid the scenic papal gardens outside Rome in early March, the Vatican and the University of Notre Dame launched a new global sustainability initiative to apply Catholic principles to addressing climate change and other ecological threats facing the planet. Holy Cross Fr. Robert Dowd, president of the Catholic university in Indiana, said in a statement that the alliance left its inaugural meeting "with a renewed sense of purpose and hope" and that its efforts reflect "the deep connections between environmental sustainability and human dignity and flourishing." A central figure was Holy Cross Fr. Daniel Groody, vice president and associate provost for undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame. They were later joined by Arun Agrawal, a renowned scholar of environmental politics and sustainability who in January 2025 became the founding director of Notre Dame's Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative, which leads the university's efforts around food, energy, water and infrastructure.

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    Daniel Groody

    Theology; Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs

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  15. By Alexander Kustov, an associate professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the author of  and the newsletter.  

  16. Brad Badertscher, Professor of Accountancy, University of Notre Dame

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  17. Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, who critically observes the modern American presidency, noted Trump’s recent sharp criticism of the justices who ruled against his preferred outcome in the tariff decision. The president might be attempting to “make the point that he should have the ultimate say on cases he considers most important to his presidency,” Schmuhl told OSV News.

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