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The Ambitions of Our Founders
CatholicU, Fall 2019
When you are at the beginning, it’s always a small thing. Aside from the pomp and circumstance of the inaugural Mass, the opening of Catholic University in 1889 appeared to be nothing more ambitious than a few seminarians learning to master Latin on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. But to the bishops, and to Pope Leo XIII, the fledgling school was the seed of a far more significant project.
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A Call to Holiness
CatholicU, Summer 2019
It’s been one year since the Archdiocese of New York revealed allegations against Theodore McCarrick, and a state attorney general released a grand jury report on abuse in six diocese in Pennsylvania. In the wake of those revelations last summer, I wrote to the University community recalling the command heard by St. Francis of Assisi to “rebuild my Church, which is in ruins.” I didn’t know then, and I don’t know now, whether the Church is in ruins, but it does feel more like it than anything I have experienced.
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Maloney, Milestones, and More
CatholicU, Spring 2019
After more than two years of construction, the University officially reopened Maloney Hall in January as the new home of the Busch School of Business.
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