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Religion News Service
What are God’s pronouns? How the church today is (or isn’t) gendering God
November 18, 2021
Tim O’Malley, academic director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Liturgy, noted that Catholic liturgies don’t often rely on pronouns for God — though they are masculine, when present — and they frequently implement the trinitarian language of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
ND Experts
McGrath Institute for Church Life
The New York Times
U.S. Is ‘Considering’ Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Olympics, Biden Says
November 18, 2021
“Regimes have a history of treating their hosts of the Olympics with an international seal of approval for whatever they’re doing,” said John Soares, a history professor at Notre Dame who has written about the Olympics.
ND Experts
Department of History
Associated Press
Musk Sells More Shares Than He Needs to Pay Current Tax Bill
November 17, 2021
His federal tax obligations could be as high as 40% on proceeds from some of the sales, said Brad Badertscher, an accounting professor at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Mendoza
Inside Higher Ed
Notre Dame Receives Record $50M Gift
November 17, 2021
University of Notre Dame alumnus Harry Fath and his wife, Linda, are donating $50 million to the Catholic institution, to be used exclusively for undergraduate financial aid. It is the largest gift in the university’s history.
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Associated Press
Notre Dame Receives $50 Million Gift Toward Undergrad Aid
November 16, 2021
A $50 million gift to the University of Notre Dame to support undergraduate financial aid is the largest of its kind in the school's history, officials said Tuesday.
Bloomberg
Religious Rights and State Secrets at SCOTUS (Podcast)
Audio
November 16, 2021
Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Supreme Court justices grappling with the religious rights of death-row inmates in the execution chamber.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
NPR
An issue dividing Catholics: Should abortion rights supporters be denied communion?
Audio
November 15, 2021
Father John Paul Kimes of the University of Notre Dame is an expert in canon law, which governs life within the church.
Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: Jesus, the king
November 15, 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
CBS News
Biden set to discuss Taiwan with Chinese leader at virtual meeting
Video
November 14, 2021
Joshua Eisenman, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, joins CBSN to discuss.
Crux
ND panel calls asking if Pope’s deeds on abuse match rhetoric ‘legitimate’
November 13, 2021
Though this point was not necessarily at the center of a discussion titled “Dignity in the Dock” at Notre Dame’s Fall Conference organized by the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, the evolution of both Pope Francis and his predecessor’s policies on clerical sexual abuse dominated the Q&A session.
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Crux
Bishop: Church must continue ‘increasingly unpopular’ advocacy for poor, vulnerable
November 12, 2021
Though he didn’t mention the matter of Communion, his homily on Thursday opening the annual Fall Conference organized by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame turned around the Church’s “increasingly unpopular duty to issue a cry in defense of the most poor and vulnerable: Migrants, the unborn, the disabled, the infirm, and the elderly.”