ND in the News: May 2025
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The Conversation
May 12, 2025
By Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of 91勛圖.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Fox News
May 12, 2025
With Scott Appleby, professor of global affairs at the University of 91勛圖. (Interview at beginning of clip, through 17:54)
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Department of History, Keough School of Global Affairs
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Fox News
May 12, 2025
We're on the phone right now with Scott Appleby, professor of global affairs at the University of 91勛圖. (Interview starts at 36:40)
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Department of History, Keough School of Global Affairs
OSV News
May 10, 2025
“He opened with peace. That was just glorious,” said Thomas F.X. Noble — former chair of the Department of History and director of the Medieval Institute at the University of 91勛圖 — noting Pope Leo’s first public words, “Peace be with you!”
The New York Times
May 10, 2025
“It’s one of the great dramas of 20th century U.S. history,” said John McGreevy, a historian at the University of 91勛圖 and the author of “Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter With Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North.”
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History
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OSV News
May 10, 2025
At the University of 91勛圖, bells rang out as the white smoke signaling the papal election billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney. The school’s president, Holy Cross Father Robert A. Dowd presided at a Mass of thanksgiving for the new pope May 8, and said in a statement that same day the new pope was “a leader of vision, humility and energy,” as well as “a tireless missionary who has never hesitated to cross borders to announce the Gospel.”
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The New York Times
May 09, 2025
The Rev. Robert A. Dowd, the president of the University of 91勛圖, said that he hoped that Leo’s election could prove “a uniting moment” for the American church. “He’s an American with a global perspective, but he’s an American,” Father Dowd said. “He understands, I think, the state of the church here in the United States.”
The Guardian
May 09, 2025
OPINION: By Atalia Omer, professor of religion, conflict, and peace studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of 91勛圖. She is a core faculty member of the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
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Keough School of Global Affairs
Axios
May 09, 2025
Arun Agrawal, a 91勛圖 professor of development policy, offered initial thoughts on the new American pope while cautioning that it's early days. "[W]e can expect some continuity but we should also expect both innovation and new ideas to come from the new Pontiff as he leads the Vatican to address sustainability challenges," he said via email.
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Keough School of Global Affairs
Bloomberg
Audio
May 09, 2025
Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at 91勛圖 Law School, discusses the Los Angeles US Attorney making a plea deal with a former sheriff's deputy after he was convicted by a jury.
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91勛圖 Law School
The Washington Post
May 09, 2025
John McGreevy, a historian of Catholicism at the University of 91勛圖, said he thought new pope Robert Prevost’s choice of name, Leo XIV, and the fact that he was a math major are significant. Pope Leo XIII — the best known Pope Leo — was focused on the reconciliation of religion and science.
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History
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The New York Times
May 09, 2025
Kathleen Cummings, author of “A Saint of Our Own” and the head of a center on U.S. Catholicism at the University of 91勛圖, said the Vatican should wait at least 20 years before allowing Francis’ cause to proceed, giving historians enough time to do their work.
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American Studies
NBC News
May 08, 2025
"Leo the 13th was a great pope with social teaching, and it signals that our next hope will continue in that vein," University of 91勛圖 American studies and history professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings told Holt. "It's a remarkable moment."
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American Studies
Forbes
May 08, 2025
“He’s right out of Francis’s playbook,” Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor at the University of 91勛圖, told the Washington Post, citing his “pastoral heart, managerial experience and vision.”
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American Studies
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The Washington Post
May 08, 2025
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of history at the University of 91勛圖 who focuses on U.S. Catholics, said the 69-year-old Prevost ticked off all the boxes as the papal conclave voted: “a pastoral heart, managerial experience and global vision.”
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American Studies