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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Catherine M. Odell |Heidi Schlumpf |Brian Fraga |Brian Roewe
Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, waves to the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his election as pope May 8, 2025. The new pope was born in Chicago. (CNS/Vatican Media) Although the choice of the name "Leo" may have taken the world by surprise as the American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost chose his papal name on May 8, church historians familiar with the cardinal's career and the needs of the church were probably not surprised.
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1 month ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Catherine M. Odell |Greg Erlandson |Jenna Cooper
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (OSV News) -- The University of Notre Dame Law School hosted for the first time a four-day event to promote the abolition of the death penalty. Its March 24-27 Death Penalty Abolition Week brought to campus nationally known and respected opponents of the death penalty. But key arguments against capital punishment, now a legal option in 27 states, were also immediately made by law school representatives who introduced speakers.
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1 month ago | 
ncronline.org | Catherine M. Odell |Michael Sean Winters
More than 230 people attended the conference "Signs of the Times: Interdisciplinary Responses to Religious Nationalism" March 20-22 at the University of Notre Dame. The panel "What is Christian Nationalism?" was moderated by conference organizer Margaret Pfeil, far left, of Notre Dame. Panelists included Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania; Ryan Burge of Eastern Illinois University; and Reggie Williams of St. Louis University. (Catherine M.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Catherine M. Odell |Heidi Schlumpf |Michael Sean Winters
A roll of "I Voted Today" stickers are pictured in a file photo. (OSV News/Reuters/Gary Cameron) South Bend, Ind. — October 10, 2024 A recent speaker at a South Bend, Indiana, parish said he was not going to tell parishioners how to vote, nor would he present a Catholic report card on the two presidential candidates.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Catherine M. Odell |Michael Sean Winters
After months of careful planning for the inauguration of its new president, the University of Notre Dame was undoubtedly rattled Sept. 12 when Holy Cross Fr. Robert Dowd, its new president, tested positive for COVID on the first day of inaugural activities. But Dowd, who reportedly experienced only mild, cold-like symptoms and planned to wear a mask at some indoor events, delivered his inauguration address Sept. 13 with a raspy voice and received plenty of cheers from the Notre Dame community.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
catholiccourier.com | Catherine M. Odell
Mary is shown being taken up to heaven in a painting inside a dome of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. (OSV News photo by Nancy Wiechec/ CNS file) | Section: Features(OSV News) — What’s the Ascension? What’s the Assumption? What’s the difference? The meaning of these two great feasts is sometimes a bit blurry.
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May 14, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Catherine M. Odell |Robert Reed
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(OSV News) -- ¿Qué es la Ascensión? ¿Cuál es la Asunción? ¿Cuál es la diferencia? El significado de estas dos grandes fiestas es a veces un poco confuso.-- La solemnidad de la AscensiónLa Ascensión celebra la ascensión de Jesús al cielo y actualmente se celebra en Estados Unidos el séptimo domingo de Pascua. Hacia finales del siglo IV, San Agustín se refirió a su observancia como universal y duradera.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola |Catherine M. Odell |Daniel P. Horan
Discarded food is seen in a trash bin outside a store. "Forty percent of all food grown around the world for human consumption is wasted," Sally Geislar, assistant professor of environmental studies at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, said during an April 9 panel on food waste. (Wikimedia Commons/Foerster) Notre Dame, Ind.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
news.diocesetucson.org | Catherine M. Odell
By Catherine Odell, OSV News(OSV News) -- What's the Ascension? What's the Assumption? What's the difference? The meaning of these two great feasts is sometimes a bit blurry. The Ascension celebrates the ascension of Jesus into heaven and is currently celebrated in the United States on the Seventh Sunday of Easter. Toward the end of the fourth century, St. Augustine referred to its observance as universal and long-standing.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Catherine M. Odell
An undated file photo shows a person holding compost in a garden. (OSV News/Courtesy of University of Dayton) About 40 people from around South Bend, Indiana, gathered at St. Thérèse, Little Flower Catholic Church for a March 9 workshop on composting. Composting was talked about as an ethically responsible and environmentally smart approach for dealing with discarded food and organic waste. Little Flower's Social Justice Commission organized and promoted the event.
