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Advancing Social Justice Work

Posted on: May 21st, 2016

By Dr. Kathleen Maas Weigert

Is there such a thing as “social justice”? How do people define it? Is it important, and if so, why and to whom? Can we talk about ‘advancing’ social justice? These questions have puzzled and preoccupied me for as long as I can remember. I look around the world — the ‘glocal’ (the global and the local combined) world as someone suggested — and see how interdependent we all are. What happens in Chile, China and Congo affects me in one way or another, as do events right here in my home city of Chicago.



Teaching For Social Justice

Posted on: March 21st, 2016 1 Comment

For me, social justice isn’t a concept, something we teach; it’s a practice, something we do. When a student like […]



Talking About Race and Privilege in the Loyola Classroom

Posted on: February 3rd, 2016 1 Comment

As Loyola students of color draw attention to their experiences of marginalization in classrooms and throughout their Loyola experience, as […]



“Loyola Gives” While Keeping With Your Social Justice Sensibilities

Posted on: January 20th, 2016

Around December, many Loyola departments participate in “Loyola Gives,” a holiday-time campaign to buy Christmas gifts for needy families. This […]



Watch the VC II Symposium’s Keynote Speaker and Responder

Posted on: November 30th, 2015

Here is the video recording of the, Still Guests in Our Own House? Women and the Church since Vatican II, […]



Conference looks at women and church since Vatican II

Posted on: November 10th, 2015

By Heidi Schlumpf



Still Guests in Our Own House? Women and the Church since Vatican II

Posted on: November 2nd, 2015

November 6–7, 2015
Loyola University Chicago

Free and Open to the Public

What has and has not changed for women in the Church […]



These are Children and Families

Posted on: October 21st, 2015

Katherine Kaufka Walts

 

Last summer, the US experienced an unprecedented surge of migrant children, over 60,000 arrived mostly from Central America’s […]



Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Tell me who you walk with and I will tell you who you are

Posted on: October 8th, 2015

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres:
Tell me who you walk with and I will tell you who […]



Sowing Seeds of Justice in Catholic Schools

Posted on: September 23rd, 2015

Sowing Seeds of Justice in Catholic Schools
For me, social justice cannot be about words. It must be about action. As […]