It is easy to find flaws—big ones, even—in large social movements, but we would do well to remember why student protests against the war in Gaza are happening in the first place.
Higher Education
Posted inFaith, Short Take
UCLA’s Catholic chaplain: The world saw scenes of violence at campus protests. Here’s what they didn’t see.
Last week, which was among the most intense I have witnessed in ministry, we adored the blessed sacrament, gathered for our Masses, prayed our rosaries, made our confessions and broke bread in fellowship.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis laments American universities that are ‘too liberal’ and ‘only train technicians’
Speaking May 3 on the need for holistic higher education, the pope said that some universities are “too liberal” and do not place enough emphasis on forming their students into whole people.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Gaza protests reached Jesuit colleges—schools with a history of student activism
Many Jesuit schools have recently been sites of passionate protest, peaceful activism and regrettably some incidents of anti-Semitism.
Posted inFaith, News
Columbia University chaplain: Catholics called to be peacemakers amid campus protests
”The division and hatred that have been part of these protests and demonstrations do not come from the true God,” Father Roger L. Landry said.
Posted inFaith, News
Xavier of New Orleans may soon have country’s first historically Black and Catholic medical school
Xavier University, a small Catholic and historically Black school in New Orleans, formally signed an agreement with Ochsner Health to establish a medical school.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
How the pontifical university founded by St. Ignatius is changing to meet the needs of modern students
In Part II of his exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell, the rector of the soon-to-be integrated Gregorian University describes his mission to educate seminarians who are ‘open to growth.’
Posted inFaith
Interview: Big changes are coming for the Gregorian—Rome’s oldest and largest pontifical university
The Gregorian’s American-born rector, Mark Lewis, S.J., describes how three Jesuit academic institutes in Rome will be integrated to better serve a changing church.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: A Muslim theologian on teaching at a Jesuit university
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with Professor Amir Hussain, a theology professor at Loyola Marymount University, about life and teaching as a Muslim at a Catholic university.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
What meeting John Wooden taught a Muslim theologian about Jesuit education
What we do as teachers is a sacred trust. Coach Wooden helped me to do that in my Jesuit setting.