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Faith with Justice
To bow down with compassionate love before the weak and needy is part of the authentic spirit of religion, which rejects the temptation to resort to force, refuses to barter human lives and sees others as brothers and sisters…. this… Continue Reading →
Faith is the Pierless Bridge… It bears the Soul as bold – Emily Dickinson Those of us in the City of San Francisco are blessed by the scenery of the Golden Gate. Its pierless bridge is suspended by an… Continue Reading →
When queer people see USF marching in the Pride parade; when we make religious support for LGBTQ people fully visible and explicit – it matters. A former student, who took my course as a freshman, offered me a compliment I… Continue Reading →
We live in an age of global, right-wing populism(s). A migratory bird riding populist winds could spread its wings from Florida to France, pivoting to Poland, Hungary, and Turkey before proceeding, via Pakistan and India, to the Philippines. Buoyed by… Continue Reading →
The storm exposes our vulnerability and uncovers those false and superfluous certainties around which we have constructed our daily schedules, our projects, our habits and priorities.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola was known for his skills in spiritual discernment. These skills enabled him to find God in all things, particularly in times of confusion, difficulty, and hardship, like the one we currently face.
Peace education is key for establishing a consensual and sustainable peace in the world. Nothing replaces the value of peace education in families, schools, universities, churches, temples, and mosques.
In 2019, the Society of Jesus presented the fruits of a two-year discernment responding to the needs of the Jesuits and the Church. The results are the four Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAP): Showing the Way to God, Walking with the Excluded, Journeying with Youth, and Caring for Our Common Home.
In the spring of 2020, University of San Francisco Faculty Union (USFFA) president, Sonja Martin Poole, asked Kimberly Rae Connor, the Lane Center Faculty Chair for Mission Integration and its liaison to the USFFA, to create a blessing that USFFA members could share before their meetings.
Inclusive leadership and the future of Catholicism.