Notre Dame Media Legends 2015

2015 Media Legends
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Expert: Pope
addresses
Congress as
"pastoral leader,"
not "politician"
“He is a pastoral leader... he is not trying to be a politician," University of Notre Dame
President Rev. John Jenkins told "CBS This Morning" Thursday. He also acknowledged
that while the pontiff is "clear about his views," they "come from a place of a kind of
moral and spiritual message."

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Nelson Mark
Alfred C. DeCrane Jr.
Professor of International
Economics, Director of
Graduate Studies
“Now they’re saying, ‘Gee, no one
is going to take care of me when I
get old,’ so they’re funding their
own retirement.”

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Ann Tenbrunsel, study co-author and
a professor of business ethics at Notre
Dame, said that "Despite significant
energy and efforts, it appears we need
to continue to think about how to
improve the culture of ethics in the
financial services industry and most
likely, in other sectors as well."
Ann Tenbrunsel
David E. Gallo Professor
of Business Ethics

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“This is something that
has a really big impact in
the lives of American
Catholics,” explains
Candida Moss, professor
of theology at the
University of Notre Dame.

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University of Notre Dame Chief Investment Officer Scott Malpass
and Bloomberg’s Lauren Streib examine the strides made by smaller
and state schools in endowment investing performance compared
to historically high returns at Ivy League schools.

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Abusive bosses have a range of reasons to
beat up on employees, said Charlice Hurst,
an assistant professor at the University of
Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business
and co-author of a recent study that
explores the dynamics of bullying in the
workplace.
Charlice Hurst
Assistant Professor,
Mendoza College
of Business

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Pope's trip comes as
U.S. churches fight to
survive
"It is very disheartening to see parish closures," said
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the
University of Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the
Study of American Catholicism, who notes many of
the ones targeted for closure were formed by
European immigrant communities in the 19th and
early 20th century in places like New York and
Philadelphia that have since moved on.
Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Director, Cushwa Center for
the Study of American
Catholicism,
Associate Professor of
American Studies

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In The Paradox of Generosity, the
Notre Dame sociologist Christian
Smith and his student Hilary Davidson
argue alongside Jesus and Muhammad
and Ecclesiastes that through giving
we receive. "Help your brother’s boat
across," they quote a Hindu proverb,
"and your own will reach the shore."
Christian Smith
Professor of Sociology and
Director of the Center for
the Study of Religion
and Society

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Media outlets have been abuzz with the news that
the oldest fragment of a New Testament gospel -- and
thus the earliest witness of Jesus' life and ministry --
had been discovered hidden inside an Egyptian
mummy mask and was going to be published.
Candida Moss
Professor of New Testament
and Early Christianity
Biblical Studies/Christianity
and Judaism in Antiquity
History of Christianity

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Antioxidants May Make
Cancer Worse
But scientists now think that antioxidants, at high
enough levels, also protect cancer cells from these
same free radicals. “There now exists a sizable
quantity of data suggesting that antioxidants can
help cancer cells much like they help normal cells,”
says Zachary Schafer, a biologist at the University of
Notre Dame, who was not involved in the new
study. Last year the scientists behind the melanoma
study found that antioxidants fuel the growth of
another type of malignancy, lung cancer.
Zach Schafer
Coleman Foundation Associate
Professor of Cancer Biology

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Many students engage in
premeditated cheating,
and "if you can’t sit next to
the people you planned to,"
random seating "would
break up that kind of
premeditation,“
Ms. Blum says. Susan D. Blum
Professor of Anthropology

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Maurizio Albahari says officials at
smaller ports in Turkey, Egypt and
Albania sometimes turn a blind
eye to the human trafficking,
which can be disguised by
bringing migrants on board in
small batches.
Maurizio Albahari
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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Pope Francis in America

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“Memory problems, issues with
decision-making, lack of creativity
and regulating personal emotions
are some of the first areas to be
diminished by lack of sleep,”
according to Payne. Jessica Payne
Associate Professor,
Nancy O'Neill Collegiate
Chair in Psychology

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Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
President
'No justification whatsoever‘
for homelessness, pope says
in Washington
The visit was likely intended to underline his
remarks to Congress, said Rev. John Jenkins,
president of the University of Notre Dame, a
Catholic university.
"The wonderful thing about this pope is he
does it in words, but even more powerfully,
he does it in gestures," Jenkins said.

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“If there is going to be any change for an
organization that has been dogged for
years by claims of bribery and other
corruption -- including over the decisions
to award the World Cup to Russia in 2018
and Qatar in 2022 -- it will need to be
externally driven. And the nature of those
reforms may well lead to FIFA's demise.”
Richard Sheehan
Professor of Finance

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"The bank has gone from the shadows to the realm
of mainstream banking," said Martijn Cremers,
professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame.
"They ended the anonymous numbered accounts,
and they instituted 'know your customer' rules."
Martijn Cremers

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Iran's nuclear pact: Deal of the century?
“The Iran nuclear deal is
a good one for all
concerned. This should
come as welcome news
because it is the only
game in town for reasons
critics may fail to
mention…”
Mary Ellen O’Connell
Robert and Marion Short Professor of
Law and Research Professor of
International Dispute Resolution

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“It now appears that the
Chinese financial system has
not developed as quickly as
needed. The system
continues to be dominated by
state-controlled banks who
funnel lending to large state-
owned enterprises.”
Timothy Fuerst
William and Dorothy O'Neill
Professor of Economics and Director
of Graduate Studies

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Pope Francis’ address to
US bishops could be
consequential
Catholic bishops in the United States deserves lots of praise
on some issues, such as immigration, and it’s likely Francis
will highlight that, said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director
of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American
Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.
“He’s not going to be scolding the bishops at all, but he’s
going to be challenging them, as he is going to be
challenging all Americans, to live up to our ideals,” she said.
Director, Cushwa Center for
the Study of American
Catholicism,
American Studies

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“So, in these two instances,
there are winners and losers.
But this fifth loss by Roger
Goodell is the most stunning of
all and, unlike the fantasy
leagues, comes in the real world
affairs of a league with a
seriously wounded leader.”
Ed Edmonds
Associate Dean for Library and
Information Technology
and Professor of Law

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“What should be considered
is the responsibility of
proliferating countries to
ensure that they have done all
in their power to keep the
weapons they sell from being
turned on innocent people.”
Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff (Ret.)
Adjunct Professor, Reilly Center for
Science, Technology, and Values

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“Five years after disaster struck,
much remains to be done. But by
working with the local community,
a growing global economy and the
steadfast spirit of the Haitian
people offer hope that this island
will one day offer a recovery
success story that will be
remembered in the history books.”
Rev. Thomas G. Streit, C.S.C.
Associate Professor of the
Practice,
Biological Sciences

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“These two themes – the beauty
of our natural landscapes and
our thankfulness to God for
them – are too often overlooked
in our current, polarized
environmental debates.”
John Copeland Nagle
John N. Matthews Professor
of Law

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What you think makes a good leader probably doesn't
“In what's probably the best
quantitative study of this dimension,
the psychologist Tim Judge found that
disagreeable people—those who are
more likely to be self-centered,
confrontational, and antisocial—have
a higher probability of becoming
leaders. More agreeable people—who
are empathetic, altruistic, and
sociable—tend to make better leaders,
but are less frequently chosen to
lead.” Timothy Judge
Franklin D. Schurz Professor
of Management
and Department Chair

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It's time to defund Planned Parenthood
“The American people should be thankful for
Dr. Nucatola’s and Gatter’s words, and even
for the coarse and graphic manner in which
they were delivered. In doing so, they offered
a rare glimpse of the horrible truth about the
nature and human cost of Planned
Parenthood’s work.”
O. Carter Snead
William P. and Hazel B.
White Director of the
Center for Ethics and
Culture and Professor
of Law

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Notre Dame President
Stands Firm Amid Shifts
in College Athletics
Father Jenkins, a passionate defender of his alma mater, has considered the arguments. He
agrees that the N.C.A.A. is struggling to find its role on a changed playing field. And, in what
may come as a surprise, he suggests that student-athletes should be able to monetize their
fame, with limits.
But he adamantly opposes a model in which college sheds what is left of its amateur ways
for a semiprofessional structure — one in which universities pay their athletes. “Our
relationship to these young people is to educate them, to help them grow,” he says. “Not to
be their agent for financial gain.”

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Quasar backlighting gives
weight to Andromeda
galaxy
Quasars, the brilliant cores of distant active
galaxies, shine out through a “fog” of material
closer in, so can serve to probe the contents of
nearby galaxies. But finding more than a few
quasars behind each galaxy isn’t easy. Now
Nicolas Lehner of the University of Notre Dame,
Indiana, and his colleagues have used a record 18
quasars to study our nearest large galaxy:
Andromeda, or M31.
Nicolas Lehner
Research Associate
Professor of Astrophysics

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The politicization of our Supreme Court
Richard W. Garnett
Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard
Corporation Professor of Law,
Concurrent Professor of
Political Science
“And so, as the Court’s term, and the
presidential campaign, unfold, watch for
Democratic candidates to warn about the
importance of replacing any retiring
justices with reliable liberals and for some
Republican candidates to complain that
some justices have not been reliably
conservative enough.”

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The face of our church is changing
“More than 30% of U.S. parishes are
shared between at least two ethnic or
racial groups, with English and Spanish
as the two most common languages,”
University of Notre Dame theology
professor Timothy Matovina writes in his
2012 book "Latino Catholicism:
Transformation in America's Largest
Church."
Timothy Matovina
Professor of Theology and
Co-Director of the Institute
for Latino Studies

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Faith and science can
find common ground
In his recent encyclical on humans and the
environment, Pope Francis described
environmental degradation with great
scientific accuracy, and he linked it to
economic exploitation and the plight of the
poor. This is a challenge to many
conservative Protestants who believe that
humans, because they are made in God’s
image, have a divine right to exploit the
natural world. David Lodge
Professor of Biological
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Syria: Why we should let Putin put
his hand in the hornet's nest
“But whatever his
motives, Putin has the
most realistic
understanding of the way
forward in Syria: Syrian
president Bashir al-Assad
has to be part of the
solution.” Michael Desch
Professor of Political Science and
Co-Director of the Notre Dame
International Security Program

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The Remarkable Power
of Simply Telling the
Truth
“Dr. Anita Kelly of Notre Dame has
done an interesting ‘science of
honesty’ study recently. She tested
110 subjects, half of whom were
told to stop telling lies for ten
weeks and half of whom were
given no special advisement about
lying …”
Anita Kelly
Professor of Psychology

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“The deal isn’t perfect, but
it is very good. It achieves
the priority goal of U.S. and
international policy of
reducing and placing tight
controls on Iran’s nuclear
capability.”
David Cortright
Director of Policy Studies at
Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies

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Antibiotic Resistance: Why Aren’t Drug Companies
Developing New Medicines To Stop Superbugs?
“Companies are very much
interested in disease that can be
managed -- chronic ailments like high
blood pressure ... after a certain age,
you would use their product till the
end of your life.”
Shahriar Mobashery
Navari Family Professor
in Life Sciences

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Pipeline rupture a warning of spills to come?
“Most accidents are avoidable, but
avoiding them requires vigilance. One
hopes that disaster is not the only
catalyst for change: our awareness
today of the deficiencies in our
onshore oil transport system must
lead to action now, before another
devastating spill.”
Bruce Huber
Associate Professor of Law

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U.S. Federal Jury Finds PA And
PLO Liable For Israel Attacks
A federal jury has found the Palestinian
Authority and the Palestine Liberation
Organization liable for attacks that occurred
in Israel more than a decade ago. The
plaintiffs, who are U.S. citizens, were
awarded more than $218 million.
The amount could be tripled under the
U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act.
Jimmy Gurulé
Professor of Law

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The Cure for Incivility
University of Notre Dame President and member of the Commission on
Presidential Debates, the Reverend John Jenkins talks about moral
education and the cure for incivility in an age of entrenched partisanship.

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Timothy Judge
Franklin D. Schurz Professor
of Management
and Department Chair
Why the Perfect
Manager Is Mature,
Stable, and Boring
He cites research by Tim Judge,
a management professor at Notre
Dame's Mendoza College of Business,
which finds effective managers "tend
to be highly adjusted, sociable,
friendly, flexible, and prudent."

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Notre Dame dean bikes
to battle a fatal disease
Greg Crawford's right wrist is covered with a
half-dozen multicolored plastic bracelets.
"Race for Adam," reads one, for a teen in
Bethlehem, Pa.
"Dillon's Army," reads another, in honor of a
Maryland boy.
"Fight for Jessica," reads a third, for a girl in Los
Angeles.
"I told them I'd never take them off until we have a
cure," Crawford, 50, said.
Greg Crawford
Associate Provost, University
Vice President

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“Each and every one of our nation’s Catholic
schools, especially those serving the poor and
the marginalized, represents a critically
important bridge for students and their families.
These schools are bridges from poverty to
opportunity, from isolation to community, from
the daily grind to the hope of eternal life.”
Rev. Timothy Scully
Founder, Alliance for Catholic
Education and Hackett Family
Director of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives

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Cheating All Around
“But when it all boils down to a few
numbers, and the numbers can,
carefully, surreptitiously, and
illegally, be changed, it should not
surprise us that the temptation to
do so becomes irresistible, in some
cases.”
Susan D. Blum

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Confusion over Confucius?
Zimbabwe's Mugabe wins
Chinese peace prize
“Confucius ... is a symbol of honesty,
forbearance, respect, and humane wisdom,”
says Lionel Jensen, an associate professor of
language and culture at Notre Dame. “To confer
an award in this name to Mugabe, is to
dishonor and profane his memory … and
[shows] appalling disregard of China's cultural
heritage.”
Lionel Jensen
History and East Asian
Languages and Cultures

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Do antioxidants promote
health — or fuel cancer?
Naturally, things are more complicated. Free radicals
attack all kinds of cells — including cancer cells, said
cancer biologist Zachary Schafer of the University of
Notre Dame. So if antioxidants mop up free radicals,
“that might help cancer cells,” he said, allowing
them to proliferate and spread more easily. His
research, using mice, has shown exactly that. Zach Schafer
Coleman Foundation Associate
Professor of Cancer Biology

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The Synod Could Be The Defining
Moment Of Francis' Papacy
"They are discussing issues that go to the
heart of what it means to be a Catholic living
in a particular culture," says Kathleen Sprows
Cummings, head of the Cushwa Center for
the Study of American Catholicism at the
University of Notre Dame. She spoke with
NPR's Michel Martin about the synod, in the
first installment of a new series,
Words You'll Hear.
Director, Cushwa Center for the
Study of American Catholicism,
Associate Professor of American
Studies

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"The U.S. has been reluctant to share
classified information with Mexican law
enforcement authorities for concern that
the information will be shared with drug
traffickers, and Mexico has come a long
way in trying to allay those fears."
Jimmy Gurulé
Professor of Law
Could ‘El Chapo’s’ Escape
Damage U.S.-Mexico
Relations?

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Retailers Use Time To Their
Advantage; More Impulse
Products Sold
“Well, it turns out
consumers make more
impulsive purchases the
longer they spend in a
store. This is research by
Timothy Gilbride, Jeffrey
Inman and Karen
Melville Stilley.”
Timothy Gilbride
Associate Professor of Marketing

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John Cavadini
Professor of Theology,
Director of the Institute
for Church Life
Pope Francis ‘Abortion
Pardons’: In Year Of Mercy,
A Strategic Move To Win
Back Lapsed Catholics
“The change is pastoral,
not doctrinal. It’s intended to
emphasize the church as an agent
of mercy rather than an
agent of condemnation.”

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FIFA Corruption Scandal: How
Sepp Blatter Runs Soccer 'Like a
Chicago Politician'
"Think about the NCAA with
football," Sheehan said. "If you
put a vote to all institutions in
total, you have a lot more votes,
and you're going to have
decisions which are largely
going to be in the interests of
the smaller schools.”
Richard Sheehan

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Candida Moss
Room in Catholic School
for Gay-Straight Alliance
“Pope Francis’s language is of inclusivity,”
said Candida Moss, a professor of
theology at the University of Notre
Dame. “Previously, the argument against
a Gay-Straight Alliance at a Catholic high
school or college would have been that
we don’t want to endorse non-Catholic
lifestyles. But with this pope, a G.S.A. can
be seen not as an endorsement of a
lifestyle but as a support group, as a way
of having people be in community.”

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The NYSE has changed dramatically in
just the past 10 years, and it's likely to
keep changing, says Robert Battalio,
professor of finance at Notre Dame.
“At least for my generation, it
symbolizes capitalism and all, right?
But I think, you know, in 20, 30 years,
it's not going to have the same
meaning.”
Robert Battalio

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Michael Desch
Professor of Political Science
and Co-Director of the Notre
Dame International Security
Program
The Quiet
American
“Only one of the 12 defense
secretaries under whom
Mr. Marshall served makes more
than a perfunctory reference
to him in his memoirs,” notes
Michael Desch.

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Hubble Scientists Map a
Massive Halo of Gas
Around Andromeda
Galaxy
"As the light from the quasars travels toward
Hubble, the halo's gas will absorb some of that
light and make the quasar appear a little
darker in just a very small wavelength range,"
Notre Dame astronomer J. Christopher Howk
explained.
Left: Nicolas Lehner
Research Associate Professor,
Astrophysics
Right: Jay Christopher Howk
Associate Professor and Director
of Graduate Studies, Astrophysics

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Gianna Bern
Associate Teaching
Professor of Finance and
Academic Director,
Master of Science in
Finance
Iran’s return as a dominant power in the
international marketplace is “not going
to be immediate,” said Gianna Bern,
an energy consultant who teaches
international finance at the University
of Notre Dame.

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For Latinos, 1965 Voting Rights Act
Impact Came A Decade Later
“This law in 1975 was an absolutely
critical contributor to all the
success and growth we've seen in
Latino political empowerment."
Luis Fraga
The Arthur Foundation
Endowed Professor of
Transformative Latino
Leadership
Professor of Political
Science

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Celia Deane-Drummond
Professor of Theology
Four Themes To Expect
From Pope Francis' Climate
Change Encyclical
“He’s going to follow on the idea of human
ecology that Pope John Paul II talked about: the
intersection between human lives and the
social world with the environment,” said Celia
Deane-Drummond, a professor of theology who
specializes in environmental ethics at the

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Big Picture Science
Radio
NSF-funded astronomer Tim Beers
discusses the earliest stars and their role in
creating the chemistry of the very early
universe.
Tim Beers

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Pope-Admiring Latino
Youth Are the Catholic
Church's Present, Future
"Latino Catholics are growing in number,
we all know that. But, most leadership
positions in American Catholicism are not
held by Latinos and sometimes the
ministries are temporary," or are seen as
an ethnic program to be operated until
Latinos become mainstream.
Timothy Matovina
Co-Director of the Institute
for Latino Studies

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President
Hillary Clinton Reaching
Out to Catholics
In what could signal a coming pitch for the
Catholic vote, Hillary Rodham Clinton met
last week with Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan,
the archbishop of New York, and on Monday
she sat near the Rev. John I. Jenkins,
president of the University of Notre Dame,
at a St. Patrick’s Day-themed luncheon.

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After Historic Colombia
Peace Agreement,
Optimism and Concern
"The agreement respects the rights of
victims to truth, reparations, non-
repetition and measures of justice. Most
important, if the agreements are honored,
there will be no future victims."
Douglass Cassel
Notre Dame Presidential Fellow,
Professor of Law

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Hunt for the First
Stars
"The good news is that second-generation
stars are all around us. Some of the best
examples we have are just a few hundred
light years from us," says Timothy Beers,
the provost's chair of astrophysics at Notre
Dame.
"They're really not that far away, and it
tends to surprise people that we can
understand the distant past by looking so
close to home."
Tim Beers

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Tense Scene on Basketball
Court 50 Years Ago Recalls
Catholic Role in Civil Rights
“There’s an interesting kind of
irony that the very hierarchical
and global nature of the church
means that the Vatican is more
liberal on race than the American
bishops.” John McGreevy
I.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean of the
College of Arts and Letters,
Professor of History

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Ebrahim Moosa
Professor of Islamic Studies
My madrassa classmate hated
politics. Then he joined the
Islamic State.
“The Islamic State outlook does not threaten
only groups like the Yazidis, Jews, Christians
and Shiites. It poses an even greater threat to
Islam. As long as mainstream Muslim
authorities keep Islamic learning in
formaldehyde, they make it easier for many
more like Rashid to head for the violent
apocalyptic theaters of the Islamic State
in Iraq and Syria.”

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Seamus Heaney Work Wins Contest
Honoring Ireland’s Poets and
Its Past
“Bards were the Mad Men of their day
— they were the Madison Avenue spin
doctors and makers of political fables
for their leaders.”
Declan Kiberd
Professor of Irish Studies

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Vatican Working Toward Formal
Ties With China Despite
Rhetorical Disagreements
“The comment made by Pope
Francis has to be taken in context
about Xi Jinping’s official
explanation about how religion will
be treated in China ...”
Lionel Jensen
History and East Asian
Languages and Cultures

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Some Owners of Private
Colleges Turn a Tidy Profit
by Going Nonprofit
“There is a concern that the now-
nonprofit colleges may be
providing an impermissible
private benefit to their former
owners. These sorts of
arrangements raise yellow flags.”
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Professor of Law

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Fathers-to-be may have
hormonal changes too
“The testosterone changes might
relate to factors between the
partners - how their relationship
dynamics and interactions change
during the pregnancy,” Gettler said.
Lee Gettler
Assistant Professor
of Anthropology

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GOP Candidates to Attend
Pope Events Despite
Differences
"Regardless of what the Pope
says or emphasizes, the simple
fact of being associated with
his visit is still significant
for a candidate." David Campbell
Packey J. Dee Professor of
American Democracy
Department Chair,
Political Science

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Migrant children test Europe as
Mediterranean crisis worsens
"The Mediterranean will continue to be a
heavily trafficked and deadly space," said
Maurizio Albahari.
Maurizio Albahari
Assistant Professor
of Anthropology

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Why the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize matters
“The Nobel committee has chosen to
highlight the work of civil society in
mediating in a national crisis. It may
be seen as a ray of hope in an otherwise
turbulent region.”
Peter Wallensteen
Richard G. Starmann Sr.
Research Professor of
Peace Studies

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Honor Comes Late
to Óscar Romero, a Martyr
for the Poor
The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the
Peruvian priest whose 1971 book
first outlined liberation theology,
said Archbishop Romero was
motivated by the poverty and
suffering he saw in El Salvador rather
than by any ideology.
Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez
John Cardinal O'Hara
Professor of Theology

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Pope Francis begins historic visit to New York

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The Present Past
“Religion is a better explanation
of southern exceptionalism. The
Civil War divided most of
America’s Protestant sects.”
Mark Noll
Francis A. McAnaney
Professor of History

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Sleep On It: Your Brain Never
Takes a Night Off
“For something as natural to humans as
breathing, sleep suffers from a bit of a
reputational crisis. Somewhere along the
line, sleep became the adult equivalent
of eating your vegetables, something you
have to do to get to something else you'd
rather be doing, like eating dessert.”
Jessica Payne
Associate Professor,
Nancy O'Neill Collegiate
Chair in Psychology

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U.S. retail brokers, to
avoid regulators’ wrath,
disclose more
“But the vast majority of retail
investors - those who want their
trades executed immediately - actually
benefit from the financial
relationships between their brokers
and market makers.”
Robert Battalio

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Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Professor of Law
New IRS Rules On Dark Money
Likely Won't Be Ready Before
2016 Election
“If the IRS issues a proposal in late
spring, it's possible new rules could
be finalized before the 2016
election,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer.

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Mary Ellen O’Connell
Robert and Marion Short
Professor of Law,
Research Professor of
International Dispute Resolution
Drones Are Illegal Beyond
the Battlefield
“Proposals to develop a ‘drone
court’ are analogous to older
proposals for a court to issue
‘torture warrants.’ In both cases
the defenders of these ideas
fail to realize that the law
absolutely prohibits torture and
targeted killing beyond armed
conflict zones.”

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David Cortright
Director of Policy Studies at
the Kroc Institute for
International Peace Studies
Why the Iran Deal Is a Good
Option -- and a Christian One
Cortright concludes, "The deal isn't perfect,
but it is very good. It achieves the priority
goal of U.S. and international policy of
reducing and placing tight controls on Iran's
nuclear capability ... The choice is clear.
Support the current nuclear deal or face a
future of more proliferation and war."

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Richard W. Garnett
Corporation Professor of Law,
Concurrent Professor of Political
Science
Parents’ Beliefs Should Be
Honored, Within Reason
“We cannot always accommodate
sincere religious objections. But
when we can, and to the extent we
can, we should.”

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The Connection Between
Honesty and Good Health
In 2012, Anita Kelly, a psychology
professor at the University of Notre
Dame, spent 10 weeks tracking the
health of 110 adults. "When they
told more lies, their health went
down," she has said. "And when
they told the truth, it improved." Anita Kelly
Professor of Psychology

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Pope Speeds Up, Simplifies
Process for Marriage
Annulments
Candida Moss
"It is a democratizing move
focused on easing the course
of reintegration into the church
for women, in particular."

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Supreme Court takes on
specialty license plates
"The case is important because it
provides an opportunity for the
justices to clarify legal doctrines that
continue to confuse the courts,
officials and citizens," said
Richard W. Garnett of
Notre Dame Law School.
Richard W. Garnett
Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation
Professor of Law,
Concurrent Professor of Political Science

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Why One Researcher Thinks
Mothers And Infants Should
Share Beds
"It may be 2015, and we may
live in an urban, industrial
setting, but this breastsleeping
system has been humankind's
oldest sleeping arrangement
and feeding method," McKenna
told The Huffington Post.
James J. McKenna
Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C.,
Director, Mother-Baby Behavioral
Sleep Lab

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"(Pope Francis) needs someone that can be
unobtrusive or doesn't interfere with that
encounter that means so much to him, so
Monsignor has a very delicate task I think
that he seems to be doing marvelously.”
Pope Francis' translator and
'wingman,' Monsignor Mark
Miles, gains fans of his own
American Studies

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The message of the pope’s visit
to a Harlem school
“Today, our attention will turn to
the small community of Our Lady
Queen of Angels, a school that has
quietly been serving on the
margins for 120 years. And in the
weeks that follow, long after
Pope Francis’ portrait has been
whitewashed from the buildings
and subway cars, the school will
continue to serve those same
children.”
Rev. Timothy Scully
Founder, Alliance for Catholic Education
and the Hackett Family Director of the
Institute for Educational Initiatives

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Why Bank Earnings Reports Might Be Old News
Jeffrey Burks, a Notre Dame
associate professor who
co-authored the study, said
“more advertising or publicizing
of the timing of when these
[call reports] come out is
warranted” by the bank
regulators who post them.
Jeffrey Burks
Viola D. Hank Associate
Professor of Accountancy

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Evangelicals’ Claims of
Conservative Supremacy
Are Overstated
"To (millennials), 'religion' means
'Republican,' 'intolerant,' and
'homophobic,'" wrote Putnam and
Campbell in Foreign Affairs magazine.
"Since those traits do not represent
their views, they do not see
themselves -- or wish to be seen by
their peers -- as religious."
David Campbell
Packey J. Dee Professor
of American Democracy
Department Chair,
Political Science

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The Pope, the Poor and the
Benefits of Wealth
“Similarly, if private markets cannot
provide decent jobs for all,
government must step in with job-
creation programs of its own. This
would require the redistribution of
income that Catholic social teaching
supports, but which, alas, many
American politicians deplore.”
Donald Kommers
Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie
Professor of Political Science,
Concurrent Professor Emeritus
of Law

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New Study Identifies the
Most Underappreciated
Investment Skill
In a recent paper, Martijn Cremers, now of
University of Notre Dame, and Ankur
Pareek of Rutgers, analyzed a large sample
of actively-managed all-equity U.S. retail
mutual funds over a 19-year period (1995-
2013) and found that only those with both
high active share and patient investment
strategies, where managers hold stocks
longer instead of trading frequently,
tended to outperform by an average of
2.3 percentage points a year, even after
management costs were taken out.
Martijn Cremers

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Pope Takes Cautious
Stance in Cuba on
Dissidents
Having reached out to dissident groups
such as the Ladies in White that were
detained and prevented from attending
Mass, the Vatican would be to some
extent responsible for them, said Candida
Moss, professor of theology at the
Candida Moss

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How the Fantasy Football Scandal Will Affect IPOs for
DraftKings and FanDuel
"How the public will react to the story …
will be interesting to watch," says Ed
Edmonds, associate dean for library and
information technology and a law
professor at Notre Dame Law School.
"This could have a big impact on the
future of FanDuel and DraftKings. But if
they were to go public in the current
environment, I think they would
do quite well."
Ed Edmonds
Associate Dean for Library
and Information Technology
and Professor of Law

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“He will have succeeded if he
makes the rhetoric of
conversion live again in the
hearts of Americans,
because in the end, it is not
theories that change the
world, but hearts.”
John Cavadini
Director of the Institute for
Church Life

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Timothy Matovina
Professor of Theology and Co-Director
of the Institute for Latino Studies
Pope Francis’ Preaching Style on Display in Cuba
“Francis’ homilies suspend time and place in
wondrous ways,” Timothy Matovina,
professor of theology and co-director of the
University of Notre Dame’s Institute for
Latino Studies, says. “He doesn’t just
interpret the Gospel, he allows the Gospel to
interpret us, to let the voice of the Lord
speak today as it did those centuries ago.”

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O. Carter Snead
William P. and Hazel B.
White Director of the Center
for Ethics and Culture and
Professor of Law
Here's how the anti-abortion
movement plans to
modernize it's approach
"We show the pro-life movement cares
more about women -- and their babies --
than the abortion rights movement does,
which doesn’t care about them," said
O. Carter Snead.

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Gianna Bern
Associate Teaching
and Academic
Director, Master of
Science in Finance
“The mid-cap and small-cap operators are going
to be hardest hit because this is all driven by
their cost to produce,” said Gianna Bern, founder
of Brookshire Advisory and Research Inc., who
also teaches international finance at the

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Why the Ashley Madison Hack Can Save Your Marriage
Agustín Fuentes, a PhD in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame,
reminds us that "the idea that romantic love
and marriage are connected and that marriage
is the ultimate outcome for a couple in love
gained prominence in the 16th century and
rapidly spread across much of the western
world, and now much of the globe. Previously,
and in many societies still today, there is no
necessary connection between romantic love
and marriage."
Agustín Fuentes

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Charlice Hurst
Assistant Professor, Mendoza
College of Business
Have a horrible, emotionally
abusive boss? Here’s what NOT
to do.
"Abusive supervisors didn’t respond to
followers being positive and compassionate,
and doing things to be supportive and
helpful," said Charlice Hurst, an assistant
professor at Notre Dame's Mendoza College
of Business who was a co-author on the
paper. Their findings, she said, seem to "clash
with common sense."

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1 Totally Common Shopping Habit That’s
Wrecking Your Budget
Timothy Gilbride
Marketing
“The unplanned selection may cue
other forgotten needs,” writes lead
author and University of Notre
Dame associate marketing
professor Timothy Gilbride.

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Little Flower Catholic church
now Michigan’s second basilica
"It brings great interest to the building, to
people who might not know it otherwise,"
said Duncan Stroik, a religious architecture
expert at the University of Notre Dame who
edits the Sacred Architecture Journal.
A basilica's goal "is to foster devotion — and
that by visiting the Shrine it would lead
people to deeper faith," Stroik said.
Duncan Stroik
Professor Architecture

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Director, Cushwa Center for the Study of
American Catholicism,
Associate Professor of American Studies
Philadelphia Illustrates
Catholic Church’s Dueling
Dynamics in America
“Today the fault line in the Catholic
Church in Philadelphia is internal,”
said Ms. Cummings, who directs
Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for
the Study of American Catholicism.

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"Industrial electricity usage can be
used to track production and output
in real time," said study author Zhi Da.
Study: Electricity usage can predict
stock market
Zhi Da
Viola D. Hank Associate

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Richard W. Garnett
Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation
Professor of Law,
Concurrent Professor of Political
Science
Should Washington set out to
change religious beliefs?
“Religious freedom under law is an
accomplishment, one that is both
relatively new and always
vulnerable. It is vulnerable
precisely because it is often
inconvenient to political authorities
and officials.”

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Why do people on the
other side seem so
unreasonable?
Cassel followed up with “Also no law
by Congress — that is what you
wrote in the August 2002 memo,” to
which Yoo replied “I think it depends
on why the President thinks he
needs to do that.” Douglass Cassel
Notre Dame Presidential Fellow
Professor of Law

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ISIL activity drives up
Pentagon threat level
Ebrahim Moosa
Professor of Islamic Studies
"While all threats should be taken
seriously, we should not fall victim
to (ISIL) psyops' strategy against
U.S. military personnel and security
forces," Moosa said.

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Pressure To Act
Unethically Looms Over
Wall Street, Survey Finds
“Our behavior is influenced by
the norms that we believe
exist in the industry, the
norms that we believe exist in
the organization. If there's an
increased salience of the fact
that everybody else is doing
this, we also know from
psychological research on
peer pressure that I will be
more likely to do it myself.”
Ann Tenbrunsel
David E. Gallo Professor of Business
Ethics

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The Importance of STUDENT-athletes
“At Play Like a Champion, we
work with thousands of
dedicated youth and high
school coaches and athletic
directors who are committed
to making sure that their
athletes are well-rounded
people before all else.” Clark Power
Founder and Director of Play Like a Champion
Today & Professor of Psychology and
Education

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Jimmy Gurulé
Professor of Law
Manhunt for ‘El Chapo’
races clock
"It's a humiliation and an embarrassment
to the Mexican government," Gurulé said.
"The question is whether the political
pressure that builds — if any — as a result
of El Chapo's escape places enough
pressure on the government to bring him
to justice."

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Here are three reasons why Southern
Baptists are on the decline
Some parents and leaders subtly exchange
rigorous Bible teaching for what Notre Dame
sociologist Christian Smith has called
“Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.” Here the stark,
surprising gospel of Jesus fades into a cheaper
American creed: “I have hope for heaven,”
devotees think, “because I am an American,
my good outweighs my bad, and God loves all
his children.” Innumerable media and
entertainment outlets, and even Christian-
themed programs, peddle this message, but it
is not Christianity. Christian Smith
Professor of Sociology and Director of the
Center for the Study of Religion and Society

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Tunisia’s National Dialogue
Quartet wins Nobel Peace Prize
"This is a peace prize for
the work of civil society
in mediating in a
national crisis."
Peter Wallensteen
Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research
Professor of Peace Studies

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For most voters of color,
email controversy is no reason
to dump Hillary Clinton
Latinos and other voters of color “go
with what they know and they’ve had
more exposure to her and her
husband. They remember the [good]
economy when Bill Clinton was in
office. All of those things come into
play to impact their evaluations.” Ricardo Ramírez
Associate Professor of Political
Science

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Super-size McDonald’s raise
benefits us all
“Higher minimum wages improve workplaces
both by giving workers the incentive and the
means to perform better on the job. If they can
afford to get childcare, see a doctor occasionally
to prevent absence-causing illnesses and put
gasoline in the car, they find it easier to report
for work.”
Benjamin Radcliff
Professor of Political
Science

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Associate Professor of American
Studies
For conservatives, sowing
confusion
Experts say that seems unlikely.
“American Catholics have always felt
that the pope doesn’t understand
their situation,” said Kathleen
Cummings, who directs the Cushwa
Center for the Study of American
Catholicism at the University of Notre
Dame. “It’s a recurring phenomenon.”

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President
Pope Francis, the Aftermath:
Catholic Social Teaching &
College Curricula
Finally, as the president of Notre Dame, John
Jenkins, C.S.C., remarks in his recent essay
on “The Challenge and Promise of Catholic
Higher Education for Our Time,” it bears
repeating that the commitments that form
“part of the fabric of Catholic teaching” do not
stand beyond the range of debate. “On the
contrary,” Jenkins claims, “it is precisely these
commitments that can open up the possibility
of interesting debate.”

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Richard W. Garnett
Corporation Professor
of Law,
Concurrent Professor
of Political Science
Legally, ‘God’s authority’ is a
tough issue
Such compromises can be difficult to
find. Appeals to “natural law,” and
morality, as Davis and Bunning
discussed Thursday, are difficult for a
judge to assess, said Richard Garnett,
a Notre Dame law professor who
specializes in religion and the law.

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Astrophysicists produce the
first age map of the halo of
the Milky Way
University of Notre Dame astronomer Timothy
Beers and his Galactic Archaeology group, which
includes Notre Dame astronomers Daniela Carollo
and Vinicius Placco, have led an international team
of researchers that produced the first chronographic
(age) map of the halo of the Milky Way galaxy. The
halo, along with the disk and bulge, are the primary
components of the galaxy.
Tim Beers

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Papal order shines light on
climate change’s impact on
poor
Joyce Coffee
Managing Director, Notre Dame
Global Adaptation Index
"People, governments and corporations in
lower-income countries are increasingly
impacted by droughts, superstorms, civil
conflicts and other disasters caused by
climate change," according to Joyce Coffee
of the Notre Dame Global Adaptation
Index, which ranks the climate adaptation
performance for the world's countries.

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Candida Moss
Biblical Studies/Christianity
and Judaism in Antiquity
History of Christianity
In Pope Francis’s visit, White
House sees a chance to
transcend politics
“If Obama said some of the things that Francis
says, he’d be labeled a Trotsky-ite,” said
Candida Moss, a theology professor at the
University of Notre Dame. “It must be
amazing for him to be able to say that I am
just to the right of Pope Francis on this issue.”

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This Map Shows The Countries That'll Survive
Global Warming
In 2014, the University of Notre Dame produced a definitive ranking system that showed
how countries around the world would fare if global warming increased at its current rate.

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