The New York Times
December 16, 2025
David Campbell, a political science professor at Notre Dame, told me it’s always a mistake to “speak of religion or Christianity writ large, as though it is a monolith.”
WGN
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December 05, 2025
University of Notre Dame Robert & Marion Short Professor of Law Mary Ellen O’Connell provides her legal perspective on whether Pete Hegseth committed a war crime in the Caribbean.
National Catholic Reporter
December 04, 2025
By David Lantigua, an associate professor of theology and the co-director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.
The Conversation
December 03, 2025
By Peter J. Quaranto, Visiting Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame, and Josefina Echavarria Alvarez, Professor of the Practice in International Peace 91ÊÓÆµ at the University of Notre Dame.
The New York Times
December 03, 2025
“He’s not emotive or telling you what he feels all the time,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor who specializes in Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. But “he’s able to be fully present to people.” With Francis, “there was a self-consciousness,” said Ms. Cummings. “What he was doing was going to get attention. It didn’t mean that it was false,” she added. But “Pope Leo doesn’t seem to care about that.”
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