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Loyola University facilitates another Building Bridges discussion with Pope Francis

Twelve university students from India, Pakistan and Nepal met online with Pope Francis in the third installment of Building Bridges, an effort initiated by Loyola University Chicago in 2022 to bring university students together to practice synodality.

Loyola University celebrates Sister Jean’s 104th birthday

Loyola University Chicago celebrated the 104th birthday of BVM Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt at its annual Water Tower Campus block party Aug. 31, an event that included a line of students, alumni and other well-wishers waiting for a photo with her as well as an opportunity for all the attendees to sing “Happy Birthday” to Loyola’s biggest, and perhaps most unlikely, celebrity.

Pope Francis has made synods ‘the new way of being the church at every level,’ bishop says

Perhaps the word that will most be associated with Francis’ pontificate is “synodality,” said Lexington, Kentucky, Bishop John Stowe, a Conventual Franciscan.

Loyola University to host meeting between pope and students

Pope Francis will join university students from across the Western Hemisphere in a virtual event hosted by Loyola University Chicago on Feb. 24.

Loyola University welcomes sculpture commissioned by Pope Francis

The bond that unites humanity is our fragility and weakness, Cardinal Cupich said in his homily at a Sept. 11 Mass on Loyola University Chicago’s Lakeshore Campus. It was Jesus’ embrace of that human vulnerability that allowed him to be broken and die on the cross, creating the possibility of the resurrection and salvation.

Young activists focus of Loyola’s climate change conference

Loyola University Chicago’s annual Climate Change Conference this year emphasized the voices of young organizers and activists not because they are the only people affected by climate change, but because they have been pushing leaders to do something about it.

Brother studying at Loyola nominated for Opus Prize

When Bannakaroli Brother Charles Nuwagaba travels to St. Louis for the Opus Prize presentation in November, he’ll know that he has already won.

Award for Flannery O'Connor film brings new attention to Catholic writer

It's not every day that a documentary film director gets a congratulatory phone call from legendary filmmaker Ken Burns. But that's what happened in mid-October for Elizabeth Coffman, an associate professor of film and digital media at Loyola University Chicago, who got a call from a New Hampshire area code while she was teaching class.

Catholic imaginations ‘vigorous and flourishing,’ conferencegoers say

Hundreds of writers, poets, filmmakers and other artists gathered at Loyola University Chicago Sept. 19-21 for the third biennial Catholic Imagination Conference, on the future of the Catholic literary tradition.

American public life needs conversion, Bishop McElroy says

There is a “sickness of the soul” in American public life, San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said in an April 18 talk at Loyola University Chicago, and to cure it, Americans must convert their hearts to embrace a series of virtues that allow civic life to flourish.
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