The mission of Assumption College for Sisters states that “through education and community,” the school “forms servant leaders who transform lives.”
Higher Education
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
John W. Donohue: an ascetic Jesuit and bane of Christopher Hitchens
John W. Donohue, S.J., an associate editor of America from 1972 to 2007, was described by one Jesuit on staff as “a living rule. Were the Society of Jesus ever to lose its Constitutions, we would need only look to him to see how our life should be lived.”
Posted inFaith, Features
Bill Russell, K.C. Jones and the Black players who made basketball history at San Francisco’s Jesuit university
Men’s college basketball’s finest squad did not come from one of the N.C.A.A. powerhouses of the past three decades, but from the University of San Francisco, where Bill Russell led the team to consecutive national championships in 1955 and 1956.
Posted inFaith, Your Take
How Jesuit universities can stay true to their identity
Three Jesuit university leaders reflect on Cardinal Blase J. Cupich’s piece exploring how Jesuit universities can hold true to their mission.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A pro-life examen for Catholic colleges
Pro-lifers need to seriously consider what defeats at the ballot box mean—and ask themselves why recent legal successes have not translated into democratic successes.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Playing and praying: Behind the scenes with 2 Jesuit college basketball chaplains
Behind the scenes of college basketball are the chaplains who offer spiritual support, prayer and wisdom, including the chaplains at nationally-ranked Marquette and Gonzaga.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Cardinal Cupich: What Jesuit Catholic universities can do to stay true to their identity and mission
No Jesuit Catholic university’s mission should be reduced to the wider culture’s understanding of social justice.
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What the U.S. Catholic Church can learn from the synod about racial justice
Preparations for the upcoming Synod have prompted an important question: How might the local church of the United States become a powerful witness of the good news amid cries for racial healing and justice?
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Catholic student center at historically Black Howard University named for Sister Thea Bowman
Howard University celebrated the blessing and dedication of its Sister Thea Bowman Catholic Student Center on Aug. 28.
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A new college center is introducing Dorothy Day to Gen Z — including non-Catholics
“I think that she’s a great example of someone who used her beliefs and used her ability to make a change in the world,” one student said. “And I think that a lot of Gen Z [is] looking for ways to do that.”