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Religion News Service
Notre Dame’s John Cavadini taught the forgotten power of fatherhood
August 24, 2026
It would be difficult to find a more influential lay-run organization in the U.S. Catholic Church than the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame.
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Theology
National Catholic Reporter
Podcast: 'The Special Olympics is a peacemaking movement,' says Tim Shriver
August 24, 2026
In May, the University of Notre Dame awarded (Shriver) the Laetare Medal.
Financial Times
Kevin Warsh seeks to reassure investors as US economic strains worsen
August 24, 2026
“What is unsettling is Warsh’s unwillingness to provide a clear and open assessment of the current situation and the outlook for the US economy,” said Christiane Baumeister of the University of Notre Dame.
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Department of Economics
Deseret News
As students embrace AI, universities scramble to keep up
August 22, 2026
“With each passing day a machine becomes capable — or seemingly capable — of doing something that until yesterday you and I thought only a human being could ever do,” said Adam Kronk, an ethicist at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.
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National Catholic Reporter
Notre Dame professor with focus on AI is 'guardedly optimistic' about it
August 21, 2026
Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, and founding director of the university's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, did not have much of a summer break.
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Department of Philosophy
London Times
Robert Blakey obituary: lawyer who fought the Mob
August 21, 2026
In 1980 (Robert) Blakey returned to teaching as a law professor at his alma mater, Notre Dame, where he remained until his retirement in 2012.
The Washington Post
A ‘nonbeliever’ in Congress argues new view of religion is gaining ground on the Hill
August 21, 2026
University of Notre Dame political scientist David Campbell said Huffman is probably right that secularism’s impact in the U.S. is growing. He called the change “one of the most significant developments in American society in the last generation.”
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Political Science
VOGUE
The Art of Choosing Your Wedding Day Fragrance
August 21, 2026
“Scent can be a powerful trigger of certain memories,” says Matthew Robison, assistant professor in the department of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. “We remember events with all their associated features, not only the sensory experience, but also the emotions we were experiencing at the time,” he explains, adding that memory is naturally associative, building connections between these sensory experiences and the people, places, and events surrounding them.
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Psychology
National Catholic Register
Autism and the Priesthood: How the Church Is Responding
August 20, 2026
According to a July 2026 report from the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, that increase has coincided with a growing number of seminarians who exhibit autism-related characteristics."
OSV News
Confession must include desire for reconciliation for clergy-penitent privilege, AZ court says
August 20, 2026
If the case had occurred between two Catholic priests, rather than two Baptist pastors, the obligation to report abuse would still exist both canonically and legally, said canon law expert Msgr. John Paul Kimes, a professor of practice at the University of Notre Dame Law School in Indiana.
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National Catholic Reporter
OPINION | Subsidiarity: The Catholic principle guiding popes through tech upheavals, from the Industrial Revolution to AI
August 19, 2026
By Walter Scheirer, Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.
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Computer Science and Engineering
EWTN
Pope names 2 Notre Dame professors as consultors to Vatican human development dicastery
August 18, 2026
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday appointed 12 new consultors to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development — reflecting a diverse group of theologians, experts, and professors, including two from the University of Notre Dame.
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National Catholic Reporter
Pope Leo names 3 Notre Dame-affiliated experts to advise major Vatican office
August 18, 2026
The three U.S.-linked appointments are: Clemens Sedmak, an Austrian-born professor of social ethics and director of the university's Nanovic Institute for European Studies housed in the Keough School of Global Affairs; Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, a Ugandan native and Notre Dame professor of theology and peace studies, specialized in African theology; and Kathryn Koch, president and CEO of the asset management firm Trust Company of the West who is also a Notre Dame graduate and member of the university's board of trustees.
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Department of Theology; Keough School of Global Affairs
Keough School of Global Affairs
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EWTN
Florida Attorney General Urges Catholic Schools to Allow Religious Vaccine Exemptions
Video
August 17, 2026
Rick Garnett of the University of Notre Dame and Joshua Hochschild of Mount St. Mary’s University examine the religious liberty and church-state issues at the center of the debate.
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Notre Dame Law School
ABC News
Some Democrats trying to reclaim the issue of faith from the Republican Party
August 17, 2026
David Campbell, a professor of politics at the University of Notre Dame, told ABC News that Carter ran on describing himself "as a born-again or evangelical Christian, and no presidential candidate had ever done that before."
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Political Science
The New York Times
Luigi Mangione’s Case Hit a Cultural Nerve
August 14, 2026
“He’s seen online as an antihero, a Batman of characters — someone to stand up for the dissatisfaction that is being felt,” said Tim Weninger, a computer science professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies social media and violent discourse on the internet.
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Computer Science and Engineering
The Economist
Donald Trump’s attack on mail-in voting looks doomed
August 14, 2026
The jumble of lists confuses even election-law experts like Derek Muller of the University of Notre Dame. “It is quite unclear to me how the various lists are supposed to interact with one another,” he says. Part of the confusion regards timing. The deadlines for the federal government sending lists to the states and the states sending lists to the USPS are both 60 days before an election, which seems to make it difficult for the former to inform the latter.
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Law School
Time
Is There a ‘Religious Revival’ Happening Among Gen Z?
August 14, 2026
“I would not say that the evidence [of a revival] has been convincing, but there are hints in the data,” says David Campbell, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. “It’s entirely possible that the anecdotal reports are a leading indicator—so one possibility is three years from now, we’ll be having this conversation and say yeah, it turns out there really was a religious revival; it just takes a while to show up in the data.”
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Political Science
Yahoo
Anthropic Eyes $2 Trillion IPO Valuation, Jim Cramer Says the Revenue Backs It Up
August 14, 2026
Skeptics focus on durability rather than speed. Patrick Corrigan, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, questioned whether the fundamentals will catch up. Whenever there is speculation, there's also usually substance and fundamentals. The question here is whether the price investors are going to end up paying is going to match up to the substance and fundamentals of what AI is really going to do in the real economy and as a business.
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Notre Dame Law School
Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
August 14, 2026
“The wisest choice is probably to rely on the IRS list,” said Lloyd Mayer, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School who researches nonprofits.
phys.org
Can better civics education restore voter dissatisfaction over political corruption?
August 13, 2026
A study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that dissatisfaction with democracy resulted in lower support for democratic behaviors in Mexico, according to development economist and co-author Enrique Seira Bejarano of the University of Notre Dame. Seira, the Joe and Deborah Loughrey Professor of Economics, studies how malfunctioning political institutions can cause economic issues and how democracy benefits and spurs economic growth in a country.
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Department of Economics
America
OPINION | When Catholic higher education meets A.I.: We can’t let new technology override moral wisdom
August 13, 2026
By Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame.
Los Angeles Times
Historic divinity school is offering the first doctoral degree in ‘AI and moral agency’
August 11, 2026
“Almost everybody we’re talking with and working with in higher education is getting really serious about how issues involving artificial intelligence are shaping a lot of the ethical questions that we want to study and the formation work we need to do with our students,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher and director of the Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.ND Experts
Department of Philosophy
Inside Higher Ed
3 AI-Related Questions for Notre Dame’s Sonia Howell
August 11, 2026
We last checked in with Sonia Howell, director of ND Learning’s Office of Digital Learning at Notre Dame, back in 2023. Since we last spoke, the AI tsunami has hit our universities. I was curious about how Sonia is thinking about AI and learning. She graciously agreed to answer my questions.
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EWTN
Federal court hears arguments on Oklahoma's ban for religious charter schools
August 07, 2026
John Meiser, director of the Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic at the University of Notre Dame and the lawyer who represented St. Isidore at the Supreme Court, told EWTN News that the question ultimately comes down to whether charter schools are private or public institutions. In Oklahoma, he said charter schools “are called public schools” and that label “introduces a confusion that I don’t think would be present if they chose any other word.”
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OSV News
Israeli strikes cast doubt on White House peace plan as Catholic leaders call for prayers
August 07, 2026
Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who specializes in international law and conflict resolution, told OSV News Aug. 5, “There is no peace now in Gaza, and there has been no peace since President Trump announced a ceasefire in October 2025. Instead, Israel has slowed the pace of its air attacks in general. The attacks have increased again, and slowed, but never stopped,” she said. “On Sunday, Israeli attacks killed an estimated 18 Palestinians. That is not peace. Israeli ground troops have pulled back from some positions but not to the positions agreed.”
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Notre Dame Law School
AOL
Pasco charter schools threaten lawsuit over tax revenue sharing
August 06, 2026
“It is not remotely the role of a government official, even a Catholic one, to tell the bishops what to teach or how to run the church’s apostolates.” — Rick Garnett, University of Notre Dame law professor, on Florida AG James Uthmeier’s stance on vaccine exemptions at Catholic schools
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Notre Dame Law School
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America
Catholic schools and childhood vaccines: A showdown between Florida’s attorney general and bishops
August 06, 2026
Rick Garnett, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, told OSV News that Mr. Uthmeier’s letter “reflects a misunderstanding of Americans’ fundamental right to religious freedom and is a glaring and dangerous government overreach.”
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Notre Dame Law School
CNBC
No evidence of productivity boom or large labor disruption from AI: Notre Dame’s Melissa Kearney
Video
August 05, 2026
Melissa Kearney, Aspen Economic Strategy Group director and University of Notre Dame professor of economics, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss AI’s impact on the current labor market and more.
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Department of Economics
The Wall Street Journal
Gary, Indiana, Wants a Comeback. Step One: Demolish a Chunk of Downtown.
August 04, 2026
Other parts of town are more barren—particularly downtown and the adjacent Midtown neighborhood. To inject life into the center, Gary tapped architects from the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Ind., to help draft redevelopment plans.