ND in the News: October 2021
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The Washington Post
Biden to meet with Pope Francis to discuss coronavirus, climate change, caring for poor
October 14, 2021
David Campbell, a political science professor at University of Notre Dame, said the country has come a long way from its first Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, who had to convince Protestants of his independence from the Catholic Church.
ND Experts
Political Science
Crux
U.S. Church strengthening support for marriage
October 14, 2021
Timothy O’Malley, director of education at the University of Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life who researches and teaches in the areas of marriage and family, explained that he believes society might be reaching a point of stasis in how far marriage will decline in the U.S.
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McGrath Institute for Church Life
The New York Times
Private Equity Funds, Sensing Profit in Tumult, Are Propping Up Oil
October 13, 2021
Sophie Shive, an associate professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame, said more stringent transparency rules would help good private equity firms differentiate themselves in a murky industry and win new investors.
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Mendoza College of Business
National Catholic Reporter
Theologians affirm 'Black Theology Matters' at symposium
October 13, 2021
Theologians, scholars and clergy gathered for the 2021 Black Catholic Theological Symposium at the University of Notre Dame Oct. 7-9 in South Bend, Indiana, where speakers affirmed the activism of the Black Lives Matter movement and called for an embrace of an "authentically Black and radical" Catholic tradition.
Catholic News Service
Perpetual adoration is the ‘fuel that runs this parish’
October 12, 2021
Kimberly Belcher, an associate professor of liturgical studies at the University of Notre Dame, said the practice of eucharistic adoration stemmed from people gazing at the Eucharist at Mass and having a spiritual experience.
Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: The final misunderstanding
October 11, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
McGrath Institute for Church Life
Associated Press
GOP senator backs Ex-Sen. Donnelly’s pick for Vatican post
October 10, 2021
Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins called Donnelly “an ideal choice to represent the United States at the Vatican.”
Crux
Biden taps pro-life Democrat as US Ambassador to the Vatican
October 09, 2021
Notre Dame President Father John I. Jenkins extended his congratulations to Donnelly on Friday.
Catholic News Service
Joseph Donnelly, pro-life Democrat and former U.S. senator from Indiana, is Vatican ambassador nominee
October 09, 2021
"Joe has been an exemplary public servant in Congress, an invaluable friend of Notre Dame and of me personally, and he is an ideal choice to represent the United States at the Vatican," said Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins.
Rolling Stone
QAnon's Deadly Price
October 09, 2021
QAnon has had a hold on white evangelical communities, in part because of its apocalyptic message, and the focus on Trump as a messianic figure who will usher in a new era, says Dr. Jason A. Springs, a professor of religion at the University of Notre Dame.
Bloomberg
State Secrets That Are Not Secrets in Black Site Case (Podcast)
Audio
October 08, 2021
Professor Jimmy Gurulé of Notre Dame Law School, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over state secrets in the torture of Abu Zubaydah, the first “War on Terror” detainee subjected to torture abroad by U.S. intelligence.
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Notre Dame Law School
Religion News Service
Biden to nominate Joseph Donnelly as Vatican ambassador
October 08, 2021
Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins, celebrated Donnelly’s nomination in a statement published on the school’s website.
Associated Press
Texas judge says abortions can resume, but future uncertain
October 08, 2021
“It does feel novel for the federal government to sue a state on this relatively diffuse basis,” said University of Notre Dame law professor Samuel Bray. “But novel things happen. The way the Texas statute is set up is novel. Novel serve, novel return.”
The Economist
America’s political scientists are worried about “lethal partisanship”
October 07, 2021
Erin Rossiter, of the University of Notre Dame, has found that even imagining a conversation with an opponent can cause at least a temporary reduction in hostility to supporters of the other party.