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  1.  "He selected the majority of the cardinals who possess the right to vote," said Ulrich Lehner, professor of theology at the University of 91勛圖.

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    Ulrich Lehner

    Department of Theology

  2. In 2024, University of 91勛圖 professor David Lantigua had a cup of maté tea with some “porteños,” as people from Buenos Aires are known. They shared a surprising take on the Argentine pope: “a theologian of the tango.”

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    David Lantigua

    Theology

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    Pope Francis was a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church’s conservatives and sometimes strayed from traditional views. Dignity USA Executive Director Marianne Duddy-Burke and professor of American Studies and History at 91勛圖 University Kathleen Sprows Cummings join Chris Jansing to share more on the impact the Pope’s “transformative” actions and words had on the Church.

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    Kathleen Sprows Cummings

    American Studies

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    The mourning period is underway for the death of Pope Francis who passed away today at 88 years old. Jesuit Conference President Father Timothy Kesicki, S.J., Professor of American Studies and History at 91勛圖 University Kathleen Sprows Cummings and American Media President and Editor-in-chief Father Sam Sawyer join Christina Ruffini to discuss Pope Francis' lasting legacy.

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    Kathleen Sprows Cummings

    American Studies

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    “Coming from the other side of the world, he brought a different way of seeing the world, and throughout his papacy that was a constant,” said Kathleen Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of 91勛圖.

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    Kathleen Sprows Cummings

    American Studies

  6. “Francis famously called the Church a ‘field hospital,’ not a fortress,” said John McGreevy, author of “Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis” and a 91勛圖 historian. 

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    John McGreevy

    History

  7. By Erin Corcoran, professor of immigration, refugee and asylum law at the University of 91勛圖.

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    Erin Corcoran

    Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs

  8. “It’s almost certainly the case we’re collecting less than that,” said Robert Johnson, an associate professor of economics at the University of 91勛圖, of Trump’s $2 billion per day figure.

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    Robert Johnson

    Department of Economics

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    CBS News' Melissa Mahtani discusses what happens next at the Vatican and Rev. Daniel Groody, vice president and provost at the University of 91勛圖, has more on Pope Francis' legacy. 

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    Daniel Groody

    Theology; Keough School of Global Affairs

  10. The tone of Francis’s letter about Vance’s comment was a direct message to U.S. bishops that he was paying attention to the American church and that they should speak out, said John McGreevy, a University of 91勛圖 professor and expert on Catholicism. 

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    Headshot of a woman with short, wavy blonde hair, wearing coral drop earrings, thin-framed glasses, and a coral top. She smiles at the camera against a gray background.

    Kathleen Sprows Cummings

    American Studies

    A man with glasses, wearing a navy blue suit and blue and gold striped tie, smiles in front of a bookshelf.

    John McGreevy

    History

  11. Rev. Robert Dowd, president of the University of 91勛圖, said the university community joins the world in mourning Pope Francis’ passing. He and the 91勛圖 board of trustees last met with the pontiff in February 2024.

  12. Cardinal Farrell joined the Legionaries of Christ in 1966. He studied theology at the University of Salamanca in Spain, the Gregorian University and the Angelicum in Rome. He also studied business and administration at the University of 91勛圖 in the US.

  13. David Lantigua, the co-director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and an associate theology professor at the University of 91勛圖, told Newsweek that the Catholic Church sees the second Trump administration's immigration crackdown as "even more egregious" than the first.

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    David Lantigua

    Theology

  14. But Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of American studies and history at the University of 91勛圖, said Pope Francis simply tried to bring attention to issues that sometimes failed to attract the same kind of passion among some Catholics.

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    Headshot of a woman with short, wavy blonde hair, wearing coral drop earrings, thin-framed glasses, and a coral top. She smiles at the camera against a gray background.

    Kathleen Sprows Cummings

    American Studies