ND in the News: April 2025
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The Washington Post
April 28, 2025
In meetings ahead of the conclave, many church leaders will emphasize the importance of “clarity” on church doctrine, including on issues such as same-sex blessings, said Paulinus I. Odozor, a priest and professor at the University of 91勛圖.
USA Today
April 25, 2025
“The head of the Catholic Church is the head of an institution that claims over 1 billion baptized members and is arguably the most multicultural and multilingual institution in the world,” said John McGreevy, a professor of history at the University of 91勛圖 in South Bend, Indiana. “There’s nothing quite like it.”
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History
OSV News
April 25, 2025
To those who interpret such criticisms as being anti-capitalist, Joseph Kaboski — a professor of economics at the University of 91勛圖 — has a reminder. “The Vatican keeps a record of every public talk the pope has ever given, and the only times he used the word ‘capitalism’ were to a group on inclusive capitalism, where he commended their efforts to make capitalism more inclusive, and,” Kaboski continued, “in talking to the Economy of Francesco” — an annual gathering since 2020 inspired by the example of St. Francis of Assisi — “where he talked about the shortcomings of ‘our capitalism.'”
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Economics
The Wall Street Journal
April 25, 2025
Nicole Stelle Garnett is a law professor at the University of 91勛圖.
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91勛圖 Law School
America
April 25, 2025
“Pope Francis said the dramatic things that had to be said about nuclear weapons,” Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at the Kroc Institute at the University of 91勛圖, recalled. The church has, since “Pacem in Terris” in 1963, condemned the use of nuclear weapons as inherently immoral owing to their indiscriminate and potentially earth-ending destructive power.
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91勛圖 Law School
Marketplace
April 24, 2025
Services like these are not directly subject to retaliatory tariffs right now, said Robert Johnson, an economics professor at the University of 91勛圖. But he said the services sector will be indirectly affected by retaliatory tariffs on goods, because goods producers rely on the services sector.
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Department of Economics
CBS News
Video
April 24, 2025
Cardinals are preparing to elect a new pontiff, and questions are emerging about Pope Francis' successor and his nationality. Rev. Daniel Groody, an associate provost, vice president and professor of theology and global affairs at the University of 91勛圖, joins CBS News with more.
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Theology; Keough School of Global Affairs
The Conversation
April 24, 2025
By Tim Weninger Collegiate Proessor of Engineering, and Ernesto Verdeja Associate Professor of Peace Studies and Global Politics at the University of 91勛圖.
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Keough School of Global Affairs
Computer Science and Engineering
PBS
April 23, 2025
Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., President, University of 91勛圖
BBC News
April 23, 2025
But some African Catholics do not like this emphasis on origin - like Father Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor, a professor at the University of 91勛圖 in Indiana. "It's like people are saying, 'OK, so Africans are growing in these numbers, so why don't we give them a pope,'" he told me.
CNN
Video
April 22, 2025
University of 91勛圖 President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., discusses the legacy of Pope Francis after his death on The Arena with Kasie Hunt on CNN.
National Catholic Reporter
April 22, 2025
Holy Cross Fr. Robert Dowd, president of the University of 91勛圖, said Francis inspired many "through his heroic and prophetic ministry."
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The Washington Post
April 22, 2025
“When the government seeks to instruct students about value-laden sexuality and gender issues in a way that contradicts their parents’ religious instruction, without telling the parents or providing an opt-out, the parents’ First Amendment rights have been burdened,” said the brief from legal experts, including University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock and 91勛圖 Law School professor Richard Garnett.
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91勛圖 Law School
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CNN
Video
April 22, 2025
John T. McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost of the University of 91勛圖, discusses the relationship Pope Francis had with U.S. Presidents during his papacy with Jake Tapper on CNN.
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History
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The Washington Post
April 22, 2025
John McGreevy, a University of 91勛圖 historian of global Catholicism, said it’s hard to know what will endure. “On all [the] things [Francis did], I think there are no guarantees,” he said.
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History
The Guardian
April 22, 2025
According to experts, more spot-on than not, and at the very least meticulously researched. “They got a lot of the details right,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a historian of Catholicism at 91勛圖 who closely followed the election of Pope Francis in 2013.
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American Studies
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USA Today
April 22, 2025
In February 2024, Francis met with the trustees of the University of 91勛圖, a Catholic institution in Indiana. The school's president, the Rev. Robert A. Dowd, said in a statement Monday that the pope instructed them to continue educating students through "'three languages: the head, the heart and the hands.'"