What Am I Supposed To Do Now?
Several of us in the office today were sharing our feelings, wondering about a world that has gone so awry and asking a lot of questions about the shooting in Virginia that went viral.
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Dignity and the Death Penalty
by Fadya Salem The Journal for Social Justice, University Ministry, and the Center for Public Interest Law had the honor and privilege of hosting Sister Helen Prejean for a roundtable discussion with students, faculty, and alumni in April. Sister Helen, Nobel Peace Prize Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of the academy award […]
DRMA Spring Lecture 2015
Title: Romantic Catholics: Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam, Marriage, and the Catholic Social Vocation Speaker: Carol Harrison, Ph.D. professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Author of the book: Romantic Catholics: France’s Post-revolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith. Marriage to Amélie Soulacroix in 1841 transformed Frédéric Ozanam’s sense of his obligations to […]
DRMA Spring Lecture, 2015
Title: Romantic Catholics: Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam, Marriage, and the Catholic Social Vocation Speaker: Carol Harrison, Ph.D. professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Author of the book: Romantic Catholics: France’s Post-revolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith. Marriage to Amélie Soulacroix in 1841 transformed Frédéric Ozanam’s sense of his obligations to […]
Happy Birthday, Vincent!
On April 24th, the DePaul community will celebrate the birthday of St. Vincent de Paul, for whom DePaul is named. Vincent founded the Congregation of the Mission (the Vincentians) and, with St. Louise de Marillac, the Daughters of Charity. Above all, Vincent, I appreciate what I have come to know of as your “simplicity,” that […]
Sinking in Struggles
By: Olivia Hollman One of the biggest lessons I’ve been learning this academic year is about struggles and how to deal with them. Between the combination of adding two jobs to the stress of school work, shifting relationships with friends, worry about the future financially, changing dynamics with family, and personal concerns, I’ve had a […]
Social Justice Beats
by Katie Brick “Hammer and a Nail” by the Indigo Girls came through my car radio this weekend. I was whisked back to doing community service – or thinking about doing service – in my 20s. And then I thought about theme songs from various DePaul Service Immersion Trips I’ve been on. With new Spring […]
Who Deserves to Live?
Interfaith Scholar Melanie Kulatilake shares a Buddhists’ perspective on life and the struggle our society faces, on how to branch out of the common notion to find our own truth. Surrounding me is darkness with the shallow lights of the stars and my front porch lamp to guide me into the night. I walk down the steps […]
Step a Little Lighter
by Tom Judge At the end of December, as I contemplated the calendar and the flip from 2014 to 2015, I imagined myself, of all things, an Acapulco cliff diver, balancing at the edge, preparing to take the plunge. Once the calendar turned, I jumped (and I had to jump) there was no way to […]
A Jew on Two Wheels
Interfaith Scholar Joel Gitskin shares how he connects to his faith through being a bike messenger The bike messenger community is an interesting one. In the last year and a half of my life, while I’ve been making money by carrying a bunch of stuff from one place to another on two wheels, I’ve met a strange […]