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Notre Dame theologian to receive 2024 Ratzinger Prize from Vatican

Cyril O’Regan, the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to receive the 2024 Ratzinger Prize in Theology, widely regarded as the most prestigious award in the field. Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, will present the award to O’Regan and to sculptor Etsurō Sotoo during a ceremony at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on Nov. 22. Both winners will also have an audience with Pope Francis earlier that day.

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Notre Dame to host conference on St. Thomas Aquinas, commemorating 800th anniversary of his birth

To commemorate the 800th anniversary of his birth, the University of Notre Dame will host a conference Sunday through Wednesday (Sept. 22-25) celebrating Aquinas’ enduring importance to contemporary cultural, philosophical and theological discussions. “Aquinas at 800: ‘Ad multos annos’” will be the largest conference of its kind, with more than 500 in-person attendees and more than 150 speakers.

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Family buffers

Psychologist studies how siblings can bolster the mental health of immigrants

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Words fly through air

Notre Dame marks the 125th anniversary of the first known wireless transmission in the United States