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Lawrence S. Cunningham
John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology
Specialty: Systematic Theology and Catholic Spirituality
Courses: Honors Theology
- Now starting his nineteenth year at Notre Dame after being recruited from Florida State University where he was the lone Catholic in the Department of Religion.
- Indulges in no sport involving a ball (being obedient to Thomas Jefferson’s dictum that it is not a pastime befitting a gentleman) but does watch, passionately, Notre Dame football, men and women’s basketball, men and women’s soccer, and baseball.
- Loves going to museums, mowing the lawn, and anything Italian even though he is half Irish and half Lithuanian.
- Has a special interest in saints about which he has written a number of books even though he is not all that saintly himself. Inordinately fond of monasteries which he often visits either as a guest or as a lecturer.
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