ND in the News: March 2021
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The Atlantic
Do You Believe in Miracles?
March 22, 2021
Alvin Plantinga, a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, wrote, “It still seems striking that these constants should have just the values they do have … It is still much less improbable that they should have those values if there is a God who wanted a life-friendly universe.”
The Daily Beast
The Evangelicals’ Trump Obsession Has Tarnished Christianity
March 21, 2021
According to political scientists David E. Campbell and Geoffrey C. Layman of the University of Notre Dame and John C. Green of the University of Akron, authors of Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics, this corruption is happening already.
The Wall Street Journal
Pete Buttigieg on the Pandemic Year: How Little We Communicate With Words
March 20, 2021
Last fall, teaching at Notre Dame, I realized how dependent I had become on the subtle signals of faces rising and falling as I spoke.
Los Angeles Times
As democracy fades, Hong Kong’s political opposition become political prisoners
March 19, 2021
“When lawyers, professors, social workers and journalists are arrested and put behind bars, it is a totalitarian system,” said Victoria Hui, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame and a Hong Kong native.
ND Experts
Political Science
America
Priests and lay women work together every day. The church is finally starting to train them together, too.
March 18, 2021
At 18 years of age, “you’re still trying to figure out life. You’re trying to figure out who God’s calling you to be,” said Brian Ching, C.S.C., the director of the Old College Undergraduate Seminary and rector of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame.
Associated Press
IRS will delay tax filing due date until May 17
March 18, 2021
“Never before has the law changed so substantially in the middle of tax filing season,” Patrick Thomas, director of Notre Dame Law School’s Tax Clinic, said in a statement.
USA Today
IRS tax deadline changes with income taxes and payments due May 17 to give taxpayers more time amid COVID
March 17, 2021
"Never before has the law changed so substantially in the middle of tax filing season," Patrick Thomas, director of Notre Dame Law School’s Tax Clinic, said in a statement.
Reuters
Oil bears and bulls grapple as market puzzles over pandemic exit
March 17, 2021
“This time, what is different is the dramatic decrease in consumer and commercial demand”, said Gianna Bern, finance professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business
National Catholic Reporter
Latino identities, always in the plural, and voting trends
March 17, 2021
"Latinos can be identified strongly both with their nation of origin and as part of an aggregate Latino or Hispanic group and as an American citizen," Luis Fraga, director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame told NCR.
ND Experts
Department of Political Science
Catholic News Service
Clergy seen as ‘fourth branch of government’ in coup-stressed Mali
March 17, 2021
On one side of the coin, the clerics can serve as “a moralizing check on government” and as “counselors to political leaders” — championing Malian values, legitimizing government initiatives and generating social cohesion, said Jaimie Bleck, a Notre Dame associate professor of political science...“Muslims in the Sahel and elsewhere in the world are living in one of the most challenging periods,” said A. Rashied Omar, an assistant teaching professor at the Kroc Institute, speaking from Cape Town, South Africa.
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National Catholic Reporter
Links: Archbishop Naumann, religion as antidepressant and Yo-Yo Ma
March 16, 2021
From the Religious Liberty Initiative at the University of Notre Dame Law School, news about an amicus curiae brief filed on behalf of litigants challenging the exclusion of religious schools from a program in Maine that provides aid to private, secular schools.
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The Wall Street Journal
Do You Commune With Nature?
March 16, 2021
An article in Medical Press about a recent study by a Notre Dame psychology professor is headlined “Taking time to commune with nature increases feelings of connecting with it, study shows.”
ND Experts
Psychology
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Associated Press
Chicago parish fiercely backs priest after sex abuse claims
March 15, 2021
Of roughly 21,000 American Catholic parishes, about 800, or less than 4%, are mostly Black, according to a University of Notre Dame and National Black Catholic Congress study.
The Independent
This is why you keep forgetting what you were doing when you enter a new room
March 15, 2021
The explanation came to prominence in 2011 after a study by researchers at the University of Notre Dame.
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National Catholic Reporter
The Latino vote: It doesn't exist, but it will decide the future
March 15, 2021
"Since the 2010 census — we'll soon have the 2020 numbers — 94% of Latinos under the age of 18 were born in the United States," notes University of Notre Dame political science Professor Luis Fraga, who also directs the school's Institute for Latino Studies.
ND Experts
Department of Political Science
