USA Today
May 13, 2026
“As soon as you start thinking of yourself as a machine, only not as good, then you’re just a commodity and have no other reason to live,” said John Cavadini, director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï in South Bend, Indiana. “It’s a pathway to desolation.”
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Theology
The New York Times
May 13, 2026
“What is going on here is the focus on subset viral moments that land media attention for political leaders,” said Madhav Joshi, a professor at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï.
CBS News
May 12, 2026
More than 450,000 people were killed over decades of conflict, most of them unarmed civilians, according to Josefina Echavarría Alvarez of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Around 50,000 people were also kidnapped throughout the conflict.
OSV News
May 07, 2026
“We still find that many individuals, when they themselves are experiencing a mental health crisis or mental illness — or when their loved ones are — that a priest or someone in the parish … would be the first person that they would reach out to,” Beth Hlabse, program director for the Fiat Program on Faith and Mental Health at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, said.
The New York Times
May 06, 2026
In the United States, Leo’s background makes him more relevant, according to Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a historian at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï. Americans “are paying more attention because he’s one of our own,” she said.
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American Studies
The Christian Science Monitor
May 06, 2026
“The U.S. is trying to get back to the situation that existed before we launched this escapade,” says Eugene Gholz, a professor of political science at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï. “We’re not trying to gain. We’re trying to undo a loss.”
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Political Science
ABC News
May 05, 2026
“People always look for signs in state and local elections, of, is this a sign of something bigger? And so this is seen as a sign, because ordinarily, the Indiana primaries don't attract a lot of attention, but people are looking at this as a sign of as a test for the president's clout,” Joshua Kaplan, Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, told ABC News.
Reuters
May 04, 2026
"He began his time on the court often in dissent, and he stood his ground," said Haley Proctor, a University of 91³Ô¹Ï law professor who previously served as a clerk for Thomas. "The justice's influence on the law has been profound," ​Proctor said. "And that is a consequence, not only of his many years on the court, but also of his persistence."
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91³Ô¹Ï Law School
NPR
Audio
April 30, 2026
The fertility rate in the United States has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded...I spoke with Melissa Kearney, an economist at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï. She says these two trends combined - fewer U.S. babies and fewer migrants - these are game-changers.
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Department of Economics
National Catholic Reporter
April 30, 2026
"The pope is the one who is clear-eyed and understands the need for preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but also the appropriate means for pursuing that goal," said Gerard Powers, director of Catholic peacebuilding studies at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
The Conversation
Audio
April 30, 2026
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, Jerry Powers, the director of Catholic Peace Building Studies at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï in Indiana, explains how the Catholic church’s just war tradition evolved and the influence it’s had on US military thinking. Powers was a senior advisor on international policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the Iraq war, and was involved in efforts to persuade the Bush administration not to invade.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
The Guardian
April 30, 2026
Political scientists such as the University of 91³Ô¹Ï’s Christina Wolbrecht have argued that America wasn’t really a democracy, not in the meaningful sense of the term, until the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the law that formed the signature achievement of the civil rights movement and sought to end racial barriers to voting across the south when it was passed in 1965.
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Political Science