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  1. Lectures in History: American Colonies after the Seven Years War

    January 18, 2023

    University of Notre Dame professor Katlyn Carter taught a class about British imperial reforms and American colonial grievances in the wake of the Seven Years War (1756-63).

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  2. Rise in middle-aged white ‘deaths of despair’ may be fueled by loss of religion, new research paper argues

    January 16, 2023

    The working paper, from Tyler Giles of Wellesley College, Daniel Hungerman of the University of Notre Dame, and Tamar Oostrom of The Ohio State University, looked at the relationship between religiosity and mortality from deaths of despair.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  3. 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.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  4. 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?”

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  5. Future doctor of the church? Scholars say Benedict XVI stands the test of time

    January 04, 2023

    John Cavadini, a theology professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said that with the encyclicals, Pope Benedict is "taking up a very basic facet of our faith … and explaining it to people."

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  6. 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.”

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  7. 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. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  8. 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.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  9. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s reported last words: ‘Lord, I love you’

    January 01, 2023

    Pope Benedict XVI died Saturday at the age of 95, according to the Vatican. Ulrich Lehner with the University of Notre Dame spoke with LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow about the retired pope's legacy.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  10. 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.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  11. 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."

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  12. ‘A renowned theologian, a holy man’: President Biden, Cardinal Dolan, other U.S. Catholics respond to Pope Benedict XVI’s death

    December 31, 2022

    Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, said in a statement that Benedict leaves “a complicated legacy.” 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  13. Churchgoing and belief in God stand at historic lows, despite a megachurch surge

    December 21, 2022

    “Somebody who has no religious affiliation, they may well value religion,” said David Campbell, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  14. The Miraculous Life and Afterlife of Charlene Richard

    December 20, 2022

    “Sainthood links the local church to the universal church,” says Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, who wrote “A Saint of Our Own,” about the more than century-old campaign for a patron saint of the United States (leading contenders include St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Kateri Tekakwitha, though each was born before the country’s founding).

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  15. Catholics need a restorative justice approach to the church’s sexual abuse crisis

    December 20, 2022

    Daniel Philpott is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  16. Eucharistic Revival seen as chance to minister with Latino Catholics

    December 14, 2022

    Timothy Matovina, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on Latino Catholics, said that many Latinos "almost act sometimes as if the Eucharist is reserved for the most holy. You'll hear people say, 'Well, my parents were divorced, so I can't receive Communion,' which of course is not true."

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  17. The Reinvention of the Catholic Church

    December 11, 2022

    As John T. McGreevy observes in Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis, signs that the Church has lost vitality are abundant.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  18. Schools Are Resegregating. There’s a Push for the Supreme Court to Consider That

    November 28, 2022

    Mark Berends, a professor at the University of Notre Dame and the director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, was not involved with any briefs in the college admissions cases before the Supreme Court. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  19. Is politics the result of original sin?

    November 15, 2022

    The question was raised recently at a panel discussion called “The Creation of Politics” at the annual conference hosted by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  20. What the failed Republican wave means for the 2024 US election

    November 12, 2022

    Robert Schmuhl is professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.