Cuando elegí la CUA nunca imaginé que podría estar tan cerca de conocer al Papa ni que podría participar ayudando en la organización. El pasado 23 de septiembre tuve la oportunidad, junto con [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When word got out on the Catholic University campus that CNN news reporter Anderson Cooper was filming his show from the University Mall, students flocked to the area. Cooper dedicated most of [...]
In preparation of Pope Francis’s arrival in Washington, D.C., student-athletes of The Catholic University of America participated in a campus-wide service campaign, “Serve with Francis Day”, [...]
