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Gloria Purvis, an author and social justice advocate, discussed the actions the Catholic church can take in response to the current conversations surrounding immigration and abortion at an event April 1.

Catholic Speaker Calls for Stronger Church Response to Hateful Rhetoric in Dahlgren Chapel Lecture

By Emily Dabre, Special to The Hoya April 4, 2025

An author and social justice advocate appealed for a stronger Catholic response to right-wing rhetoric within the U.S. federal government at a Georgetown University event April 1.  The Dahlgren Chapel...

Aamir Jamil/The Hoya | The Georgetown University Police Department (GUPD) is investigating vandalism that occurred in Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart and the Heyden Observatory the night of Aug. 29 as potential anti-Catholic hate crimes.

GUPD Investigating Vandalism on Campus as Potential Anti-Catholic Hate Crimes

By Aamir Jamil and Maren Fagan September 6, 2024

The Georgetown University Police Department (GUPD) is investigating two Aug. 29 incidents of vandalism as potential anti-Catholic hate crimes.  During one incident, the large processional crucifix...

Community Members Remember and Honor Will Stocksdale

Community Members Remember and Honor Will Stocksdale

By Clayton Kincade and Evie Steele April 21, 2023

The Georgetown University community celebrated the life and memory of William “Will” Stocksdale (SFS ’25), who passed away April 5, at the Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart on April 17. Stocksdale...

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Georgetown Love Stories Unfold at Dahlgren

By Molly Cooke February 15, 2018

Years after meeting as participants at Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society’s Midnight Theater production of “All in the Timing,” Diana Valdivia (COL ’05, LAW ’10) and Carlos Valdivia (COL ’05)...

Community Remembers Blatz in Memorial Service

By Marina Pitofsky May 13, 2016

More than 100 family and friends of lacrosse player Edward Blatz Jr. (MSB ’17), who died April 24, gathered to celebrate Blatz’s legacy of compassion and sportsmanship in Dahlgren Chapel on May 4. Originally...

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Nine buildings, including the Intercultural Center (pictured), experienced a power outage earlier this evening.

Power Outage Affects Nine Buildings

By Toby Hung October 20, 2015

At least nine buildings on campus experienced power outages beginning at around 6:45 p.m. tonight due to an electrical transformer failure, according to a university-wide email from the Department...

Papal Mass to Feature Dahlgren Chapel Cross

By Toby Hung September 18, 2015

For more than two decades, churchgoers at Dahlgren Chapel have prayed under an iron cross that accompanied the voyage of the first settlers from England to Maryland in 1634. When Pope Francis conducts...

Discovering a Piece of History on Campus

By Louis Cona March 20, 2015

Dahlgren Chapel boasts an impressive piece of history: the cross on the wall. Father G. Ronald Murphy, a German professor at Georgetown, describes his journey of discovering the cross and his plight...

Embracing Islam in Dahlgren Chapel

By Noreen Sajwani October 18, 2013

I’ll admit it: I didn’t do much research about Georgetown before I got here. In fact, when I first arrived at New Student Orientation and learned about our 200-year-old Catholic-Jesuit heritage, I...

Facilities Work Increases for Summer

By Katherine Seevers May 16, 2013

Just as students have left campus, the Office of Facilities has revved up for the summer. In addition to relocating the School of Continuing Studies downtown and beginning construction on the Healey...

Roller-Coaster Year for Jesuit Community

Roller-Coaster Year for Jesuit Community

By Hiromi Oka April 26, 2013

Georgetown’s Jesuit tradition always produces its annual share of storylines, but this past year was particularly transformative for the Society of Jesus with Pope Francis elevated in March to serve...

Chapel Vandalism Unexplained

By Hiromi Oka April 16, 2013

Dahlgren Chapel was vandalized sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning, with chairs, an organ mirror and panel and a crucifix among the items damaged. Although Director of Media Relations...

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