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 [...]
For a while now, we have been preparing ourselves for the momentous arrival of Pope Francis at The Catholic University of America. We have done service days for Pope Francis and Spanish Masses; [...]
I am always moved when I see so many of our young men and women at CUA demonstrate their desire to give back by volunteering. This past weekend, as the nation commemorated the sad events of 9/11, [...]
Catholics believe that the pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth, il dolce Cristo in terra (“the sweet Christ on earth”), as St. Catherine of Siena affectionately put it. He is the common father [...]
Here at CUA I have the opportunity to serve the community as a resident assistant. Every year, about two weeks before classes start all of the student leaders come back to campus for training. [...]
Rare — and growing rarer by the day! — are those occasions when I wish that I were older. But, now and again, when I look at photos of Pope John Paul II’s 1979 visit to CUA, I can’t help but wish [...]
In a previous blog, I noted that Pope Francis has recognized the power of and need for grassroots movements to help build a just society where the economy functions at the service of the people. [...]
