On Feb 26 Father Theodore Hesburgh the longest serving president of Notre Dame University one the most influential priests in nbsp the history of the American church passed away at the age of 97 He was known among many other things as an innovator in Catholic higher education nbsp During his
ldquo Drew wait up how are you rdquo The voice shouted to me as I was leaving a burial at Notre Dame rsquo s Holy Cross cemetery The burial was for Fr Bill Lewers C S C a former provincial of the Congregation of Holy Cross and my predecessor once-removed as director of the bishops rsquo c
Leonard Nimoy has died at 83 nbsp In a lovely convocation address nbsp h t nbsp Catholic Dems to Boston University in 2012 he described his connection to Jesuit learning Around this time I had a welcome bit of affirmation I was seen in a play by a Jesuit priest who ran the theatre program at Bo
On Aug 5 2014 I began a poetry series for this site that aims to focus on poets whose work centers on the struggles of often-marginalized peoples within the United States I started the conversation with Rigoberto Gonzalez on his collection Unpeopled Eden concentrating on the elements of loss g