Bidding farewell to this papal visit blog will be bittersweet, just as bidding farewell to Pope Francis was bittersweet last week. Bitter because campus seems so very quiet now! Yet, sweet [...]
For the past few weeks I have been going through something I would like to dramatically describe as “papal withdrawal.” It was such an unimaginable experience to have Pope Francis on our campus, [...]
In this last of my blogs about Pope Francis, I want to express that Pope Francis’s visit to the United States makes clear that he is certainly a pope for social workers. He met with prisoners and [...]
The month of September always includes two closely related events to which people who are interested in addressing poverty pay careful attention. The first event is Labor Day, our national [...]
He is often called the “people’s pope” and that couldn’t have been more evident than when Pope Francis arrived on CUA’s campus just before 4:00 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 23. The crowd of 25,000 [...]
After months of preparation, involving thousands of people from the University community, more than 25,000 people flocked to the campus of The Catholic University of America Sept. 23 to hear Pope [...]
Pope Francis drove onto campus at 3:50 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Standing in the Popemobile, he greeted cheering people along the way around the Basilica circle, past Gibbons Hall, and turned [...]
For ticketed guests at the papal Mass, waiting is part of the experience. On big screens, the early faithful watched Pope Francis on his parade route along the Ellipse. They cheered along with [...]
Even though their official call time was not until noon, musicians from the CUA Symphony Orchestra and the University Chamber Choir were arriving on campus around 10 a.m., Wednesday, to warm up [...]
One thousand volunteers were the first to arrive this morning between 7 and 8 a.m. After picking up their credentials and official blue polo shirts, they had a few moments to enjoy the blue sky [...]
