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Georgetown Hosts Dialogue to Promote Investment in Low-Income Families

By Michael Scime January 19, 2024

Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life hosted an online dialogue exploring how members of the Catholic faith can increase their efforts to help people experiencing...

Sen. Chris Coons Discusses Faith, Politics

Sen. Chris Coons Discusses Faith, Politics

By Aamir Jamil December 1, 2023

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) talked about his tenure in Congress and the role of faith in his personal life at a Nov. 28 Georgetown University event. Jim Wallis, the director of the Georgetown Center...

VIEWPOINT: Strengthening My Spiritual Voice

By Channing Lee November 10, 2022

Like many prospective students interested in international affairs, I initially chose Georgetown University for its world-renowned School of Foreign Service (SFS). I knew it was a Jesuit institution,...

Profile: Rev. Jim Wallis Advocates for Faith and Justice

Profile: Rev. Jim Wallis Advocates for Faith and Justice

By Alex Brown April 28, 2022

When Rev. Jim Wallis, director and founder of Georgetown’s Center on Faith and Justice (CFJ), co-authored a letter urging the Russian Orthodox Patriarch to oppose the invasion of Ukraine, he put faith...

BAZAIL-EIMIL: Keep a Loving Faith

BAZAIL-EIMIL: Keep a Loving Faith

By Eric Bazail-Eimil April 29, 2021

“What unites all of our faiths is two things: peace and love.” When I attended Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program weekend as a prospective student over two years ago, I remember hearing those...

BAZAIL-EIMIL: Reject Unhealthy Standards of Perfection

BAZAIL-EIMIL: Reject Unhealthy Standards of Perfection

By Eric Bazail-Eimil February 25, 2021

In his poem “Pied Beauty,” the English poet and Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., thanks God for what Hopkins describes as “dappled things:” brinded cows, finches’ wings and trout with red...

GOODMAN: Redefining the Jewish Past

GOODMAN: Redefining the Jewish Past

By Ben Goodman November 22, 2019

My favorite childhood movie “The Lion King” provides the perfect analogy for my Jewish identity. In the film’s turning point, Rafiki tracks down and confronts Simba, who lives in exile after his...

RUIZ: Bridging Faith and Spirituality

RUIZ: Bridging Faith and Spirituality

By Ana Ruiz April 26, 2019

Before coming to Georgetown, I was only religious on Sundays. My family went to church every week without fail. However, once  my mind shifted from church to schoolwork, I turned my Catholic switch off,...

VIEWPOINT: Redefine Modern Antisemitism

By Rebecca Stekol March 15, 2019

At 19 years old, I still find it difficult to answer basic questions pertaining to my national and cultural identity. Denationalization, the removal of a group of people from a national consciousness...

LIZZA: Healing the Church Crisis With Faith

LIZZA: Healing the Church Crisis With Faith

By Erica Lizza February 15, 2019

When I made my first Communion on a sunny April day in 2005, I had never heard about the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal that dominated the news a few years earlier. With new allegations resurfacing...

KIRK ZIESER/THE HOYA | Freelance photographer George Steinmetz, right, and American University Associate Professor of  Philosophy and Religion Evan Berry, left, said an understanding religion is essential to motivate action against climate change at an event Jan. 23.

Visual Effects of Climate Change Motivate Action

By Meredith Miller January 25, 2019

Displaying the effects of increasingly frequent environmental disasters and engaging religious communities is necessary to motivate action against climate change, George Steinmetz, a freelance photographer,...

CHARCAS: Reclaiming Autonomy in Faith Formation

CHARCAS: Reclaiming Autonomy in Faith Formation

By Andrea Charcas November 29, 2018

My identity as a woman of faith was once determined by the men in my life. My uncles, my grandpa — even my own father. These men had tattoos of the Virgin Mary on their chests, wore chains engrained...

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