ND in the News: January 2023
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USA Today
Fact check: Pope’s death confirmed with traditional means, not hammer
January 11, 2023
The claim that a hammer is used for tapping on the pope's head is “a legend," though one that has been "repeated countless times as early as the 1850s," said Ulrich Lehner, a University of Notre Dame theology professor.
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Department of Theology
Irish Independent
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy twists to victory, but now can he control the ‘crazy caucus’?
January 10, 2023
Robert Schmuhl is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame and adjunct professor at Dublin City University.
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American Studies
The Washington Post
The moon beckons once again, and this time NASA wants to stay
January 09, 2023
“The time is now right to take a giant leap by using the moon to learn how to live off the land, thus enabling sustained human presence on Earth while stimulating a new sector of our economy,” Clive Neal, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, told the National Space Council in 2019.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
The New York Times
A Korean War Wall of Remembrance Set Hundreds of Errors in Stone
January 09, 2023
Erika Doss, a professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame who has written extensively about monuments, said that Americans increasingly see recognizing individuals as critical. “We see ourselves as a nation of individuals, so listing the names becomes unifying,” she said. But she wondered how so solemn a gesture could have gotten so flawed this time. She asked, “Didn’t they have an editor?”
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The Washington Post
What will Pope Benedict’s funeral look like? Pope Francis will preside.
January 07, 2023
Gabriel Radle, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, said the zinc coffin confers a certain prestige while also helping to preserve the body, which would be exhumed if that pope is formally declared “blessed.”
Financial Times
Pope Francis presides over funeral for ‘taboo-breaking’ predecessor
January 04, 2023
“It was a real break with precedent and very unlike a pope that took the Church’s tradition very seriously,” said John McGreevy, who is also provost at the University of Notre Dame. “It was one of the great things he did.”
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History
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The New York Times
Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point’?
January 04, 2023
According to a study led by the Notre Dame researcher David Medvigy, a similar pattern could emerge if the Amazon stops recycling its own moisture, as the dry air would travel north in winter.
Chicago Tribune
Neighbors hope the proposed Red Line extension brings development to Roseland. But it won’t come without challenges.
January 03, 2023
Quick connections to other neighborhoods and downtown also provide access to jobs, government services said hospitals, said Gwendolyn Purifoye, a professor at the University of Notre Dame who lives in Chicago and has researched transit.
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The Washington Post
How Nazi Germany loomed over Pope Benedict’s childhood
January 01, 2023
John McGreevy, a historian of the modern Catholic church at the University of Notre Dame and author of “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis,” said that it was clear Benedict was influenced by growing up under an authoritarian regime.
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History
Crux
US Catholics recall Benedict XVI as theologian, teacher and pastor
January 01, 2023
John McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost at the University of Notre Dame, who recently published the book Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, commented that in some ways Benedict’s death marks the end of the post-Vatican II era.
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History
The Wall Street Journal
Lone Gray Wolf’s Journey Sheds New Light on Elusive Predator
January 01, 2023
Such concerns are part of a fraught relationship between wolves and humans in North America, said Jon T. Coleman, an environmental history professor at the University of Notre Dame.
CNBC
How the Federal Reserve affected 2022′s stock market
January 01, 2023
"I think they know they gambled and lost and that they have to do something serious in order to get inflation back under control” said Jeffrey Campbell, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame and former Federal Reserve economist. “I fear that they took a gamble that inflation wasn’t too real at the beginning of 2021."