Marquette University president Michael R. Lovell recently announced the university’s first-ever strategic innovation fund awardees. Thirty-eight unique projects led by Marquette faculty, students and staff across a variety of disciplines will receive nearly $5 million.
Just days after Pope Francis released a powerful encyclical on environmental justice and ecology that has reverberated around the world, Catholic and evangelical leaders are asking members of Congress and presidential candidates to recognize climate change is a moral issue that requires an urgent response.
The Ignatian Solidarity Network welcomes with great excitement the release of Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment entitled Laudato Si: Care for Our Common Home.
Jesuit institutions across the country will be uniting in prayer tomorrow (Thursday, June 18, 2015) in support of Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change entitled “Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home.”
In recognition of World Refugee Day, Jesuit Refugee Service/USA (JRS/USA) and 13 U.S.-based Jesuit law schools announce the release of A Fair Chance for Due Process: Challenges in Legal Protection for Central American Asylum Seekers and Other Vulnerable Migrants.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved a statement on race relations delivered by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the USCCB, at their annual Spring General Assembly, June 10.
Today Vatican officials released the title of Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment and climate change. It will be titled, ‘“Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home.”
On June 4, 2015, the Board of Directors of Georgetown University passed a resolution stating that the university will not make or continue any direct investments of endowment funds in companies whose principal business is mining coal for use in energy production.
A brief Vatican press release posted earlier today announced that Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change will be released on June 18th.
Mary Baudouin, a former member of the Ignatian Solidarity Network Board of Directors (2004-2010) will be recognized by Loyola University New Orleans with the Adjutor Hominum Award, which honors an outstanding Loyola graduate whose life exemplifies the values and philosophy of the Jesuit education — moral character, service to humanity and unquestionable integrity.
American DREAMers, directed by Jenniffer Castillo a 2011 graduate of Loyola Marymount University’s Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting program, and co-director Saray Deiseil, follows the journey of the Campaign for an American DREAM (CAD), a group of undocumented youth who walked 3,000 miles across America’s heartland, from San Francisco to Washington D.C., to fight for the DREAM Act and immigrant rights.
Last Thursday, May 21, a group of faith leaders met with White House Staff to call for the end to family detention, delivering a letter signed by nearly 1,500 faith leaders from around the country. These leaders join calls by a growing number of Congressional members, civil society groups, and advocates to end this inhumane practice once and for all.
Nearly 100 social innovation projects will be showcased at Santa Clara University’s “Research with a Mission” Expo, to demonstrate the ingenuity and exceptional work of some of its top students, whose efforts are driven by the university’s mission to to foster a more just, humane, and sustainable world.
A Wheeling Jesuit University professor is at the center of a program initially designed as a volunteer effort to educate refugees from Africa and the Middle East so they could make a difference and bring hope to their communities.
The U.S. immigrant detention system, which treats vulnerable immigrant detainees as criminals, needs extensive reforms, said representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Center for Migration Studies
