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Event Highlights Importance of Pope Francis’ Church Leadership

By Jack Segelstein December 20, 2016

Pope Francis’ message of mercy and inclusivity has the ability to rekindle faith in the Roman Catholic Church, according to Save the Children Action Network President Mark Shriver in an event hosted...

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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Club’

By Skye Graham-Welton February 19, 2016

★★★★☆ In one of 2015’s most critically acclaimed Chilean dramas "The Club," director Pablo Larrain presents a chilling and psychologically complex tale of a group of ostracized ministers...

Programming, Exhibit Commemorate St. Teresa

By Paul Tsavoussis October 20, 2015

Georgetown celebrated the quincentenary of St. Teresa of Avila, a prominent historic figure in the Catholic Church, with an all-day series of panel discussions and performances exploring the modern implications...

LLOYD: A Dissent In the Face Of Tradition

By Thomas Lloyd March 4, 2014

The Catholic Church and some of its leaders have been wrong. From the prosecution of Galileo and his findings to the treatment of victims of sexual abuse in recent years, the church has proven itself to...

Welcoming LGBTQ Students to Ministry

By Tim Rosenberger December 6, 2013

Georgetown takes pride in welcoming students from different backgrounds onto its campus each year. We offer concern for all of our students and promise a small “C” catholic understanding of how to...

Pope Francis Panel Jumpstarts Initiative on Catholic Social Thought

By Johnny Verhovek October 2, 2013

New York Times columnist David Brooks and PBS “NewsHour” political analyst Mark Shields came to campus to launch the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life on Monday evening in Gaston...

GWU Foggy on Free Speech

By The Editorial Board April 12, 2013

Debates over speech policy at Georgetown typically involve restrictions on student clubs that promote values not aligned with the Catholic Church. But those roles took an unusual twist recently at The...

First Jesuit Elevated to Papacy

By Drew Cunningham March 15, 2013

Nearly an hour after white smoke began billowing out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday afternoon, Fr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., formally introduced himself to the world as Pope Francis. The...

New Pope Faces Fading Church

By Pat Gavin and Alex Honjiyo March 15, 2013

“Go and repair my Church, which is falling into ruins.” Good advice for a Catholic these days: The Church is in need of some repairs, if not a renovation. It's been undercut by scandals and unpardonable...

GAVIN & HONJIYO: New Pope Must Lead Church to Reform

By Pat Gavin & Alex Honjiyo February 26, 2013

The Catholic Church is currently at one of the more important stages in its leadership cycle: The transition from one pope to another. Just a few weeks ago, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would be...

‘Exorcist’ Author: GU Abusing Identity

By William Peter Blatty October 26, 2012

I loved Georgetown from the first day that I set my footlocker down in Healy Circle and asked an upperclassman how to find a room to put it in. I loved the Jesuits, too. In my novel “The Exorcist,”...

Church’s ‘Monopoly on Truth’ Alienates LGBT

By Julia Maddera October 23, 2012

Claiming that you believe in LGBT individuals’ inherent dignity and, in the same breath, telling them that their consensual love is fundamentally disordered requires a peculiar brand of cognitive dissonance,...

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