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The Christian Science Monitor
July 27, 2026
This moment may have a parallel in 2000, when George W. Bush ran as the candidate who would restore morality to the White House following the scandal of Bill Clinton’s affair, says David Campbell, professor of American democracy at the University of Notre Dame.
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National Catholic Register
July 27, 2026
Holy Cross Father Stephen Koeth, a scholar of urban, religious and political history at the University of Notre Dame, told the Register that Catholics often rightly recognize that those who are homeless or on the brink of losing their homes are the ones most in need of attention amid the housing crisis.
Religion News Service
July 27, 2026
“Almost everybody we’re talking with and working with in higher education right now is just getting really serious about how issues involving artificial intelligence are really shaping a lot of the ethical questions that we want to study going forward, and a lot of the formation work that we need to do with our students,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at Notre Dame.
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OSV News
July 24, 2026
Pope Francis’ approach in “Traditionis Custodes” marked “a different tack” from the course taken by Pope Benedict, said , associate professor of the practice at Notre Dame Law 91视频 and the Raymond of Peñafort Fellow in canon law at Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.
phys.org
July 23, 2026
A new study co-authored by University of Notre Dame researcher Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat shows how artificial intelligence can empower parents to be engaged educators who tailor curriculums and learning plans that meet their children's needs.
Inside Indiana Business
July 22, 2026
Inside INdiana Business spoke with Professor of Biomedical Electronics Thomas O’Sullivan about his team’s role in developing the optical sensing technology behind the device, the challenges of improving maternal and fetal outcomes and what it will take to move the technology from research to clinical use.
NPR
July 22, 2026
University of Notre Dame historian Kathleen Cummings says religious sisters have dedicated their lives for centuries to helping vulnerable people. They've served everywhere from battlefields to inner city schools. "What we're seeing here is really just a modern manifestation of that, a group of women who recognize a need in the church and want to dedicate their lives to fulfilling it, and to not do that part-time, to make that their entire life."
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Chicago Tribune
July 22, 2026
By Susan L. Ostermann, associate professor of global affairs and political science at the University of Notre Dame; Pradeep Chhibber, professor of political science at the University of California Berkeley; and Will Halm, a graduate student in political science at the University of California Berkeley.
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The Wall Street Journal
July 19, 2026
Meghan Sullivan, a University of Notre Dame professor of philosophy who is leading a research project on AI and religion, said that using AI to draft anything spoken in worship reflects a basic misunderstanding of what Christians believe is happening when a preacher delivers a homily. Churches, in her view, might be among the last institutions where people are asked to sit still, in silence, and encounter another human being without mediation. “Martin Luther is rolling over in his grave,” she said, at the idea of handing scripture off to what she calls a theological software middleman.
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CNN
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July 17, 2026
Joining me now to discuss: Derek Muller, law professor at the University of Notre Dame
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National Catholic Register
July 17, 2026
The report, published earlier this week by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, also recommends more stringent requirements around sexual maturity before a candidate receives holy orders, and more resources for those who have special needs, such as autism or attention deficit disorder.
The New York Times
July 16, 2026
“Independent bookstores are among the few remaining spaces where people can encounter ideas, build social ties and sustain an intellectual public,” said Victoria Hui, an associate professor specializing in Chinese politics at the University of Notre Dame.
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Marketplace
July 15, 2026
To prevent that inflationary cycle, Christiane Baumeister, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame, said she thinks the Federal Reserve should be raising interest rates.
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