By Molly O’Brien
2013 Alternative Break Immersion
Jonah House in Baltimore, Maryland
“We will be placing an enormous burden on you. The burden of knowing.” These were the first significant words I remember hearing upon my arrival at Jonah House in Baltimore for my alternative break immersion. I don’t remember who said it first, but each incredible woman…
Crowdfunding has shifted the dynamic of giving and provides a new sense of possibility and passion for social justice issues in today’s world.
The United Nations commemorated the anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to remind the world about the loss suffered by humanity as a result of this tragedy.
Governor Quinn praised Loyola’s sustainability efforts and recognized Loyola for achieving Gold status as part of the Illinois Campus Sustainability Compact.
Loyola made the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll which recognizes universities whose civic engagement achieves meaningful outcomes in the communities they serve.
By Timothy Rose and Elizabeth Romanski
From the Loyola Phoenix
“I can’t feel my face … or my fingers,” I murmured, barely moving my near-frozen lips. It is halfway through April, but instead of the flowers and warm spring breeze you would expect, we were being pelted by snow…
By Mark Bosco, SJ, Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Departments of English & Theology; Director, The Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage
“Roger Ebert was celebrated Monday as a film critic, newspaperman, social-justice soldier, husband, father, grandfather and champion of artists and imagination, but the great cross-section of mourners at his Holy Name Cathedral funeral spoke to a quality that perhaps reigned above all others — someone who loved and united people.”
By Edward Flores
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
In a time of transition and turmoil, young people can help the world by being global citizens, according to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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