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Growing Pains: At GU, There’s Room to Improve

By Jason Kluger May 19, 2011

Through my last two years as vice president of the Georgetown University Student Association and in an assortment of other roles in offices across campus, I've gotten an inside look into how Georgetown...

Jesuits Optimistic as Numbers Decline

By Ben Santucci April 29, 2011

As the number of Jesuits decreases at universities across the country, many institutions are renewing their focus on the Jesuit identity and developing innovative ways to maintain Jesuit culture — the...

A Day in the Life of a Jesuit

By Tyler Sanborn April 5, 2011

It is Thursday night, and on the eighth floor of Village C West that means open-door night for Fr. David Collins, S.J., the Jesuit-in-Residence. Some students walk in and out; others have pulled up...

A Day in the Life of a Jesuit

By Tyler Sanborn April 5, 2011

It is Thursday night, and on the eighth floor of Village C West that means open-door night for Fr. David Collins, S.J., the Jesuit-in-Residence. Some students walk in and out; others have pulled up...

Hilltop to Welcome New Jesuit Rector This Summer

By Laura Engshuber March 18, 2011

Georgetown's Jesuit community will receive a new a leader on July 31, when Rev. Joseph Lingan, S.J., assumes the position of rector — a position held by Fr. John Langan, S.J., for the past five years. Lingan,...

Campus Community Mourns Death of Jesuit

By Lauren Weber February 15, 2011

Fr. John F. Martin, S.J., a beloved member of the Georgetown Jesuit community, died Sunday at a hospice care center at the age of 68. A Jesuit for the last 50 years, Martin originally taught theology...

Maher: Jesuits Keeping the Hilltop’s Fire Ablaze

By Fr. Ryan Maher, S.J. January 25, 2011

Not long ago, the College of Arts and Sciences posted a video about Jesuits at Georgetown on its website. My Jesuit brothers Chris Steck, Matt Carnes, Kevin O'Brien and I were interviewed for this video....

A Higher Calling: Students Seek Jesuit Vocation

By Sarah Kaplan January 21, 2011

Most of their dinner conversations may be ordinary — mulling over the fate of the basketball team, taking stock of their new courses — but once a month this group of male students breaks bread over...

Georgetown Professor Launches Catholics for Equality

By Alice Maglio September 28, 2010

As Catholics across the United States continue to debate the legality of gay marriage, Fr. Joseph Palacios, S.J., adjunct professor of sociology, has taken the lead on helping to found Catholics for Equality,...

GU’s Catholic Identity in Flux

By Neil Quinn September 23, 2010

Forty-one years after stepping down as president of Georgetown University, Fr. Gerard Campbell, S.J. still lives in the Jesuit community here, in a spacious third-floor room in Wolfington Hall. At...

Confirming Faith After Haiti

By Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J. February 4, 2010

Seven years ago this month, my 15-year-old cousin, Alex, was skiing with six of his classmates in the mountains east of Vancouver, Canada. The young skiers - bright students from a prep school in Calgary...

On Listening With Enjoyment

By Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. September 4, 2009

A friend told me that she, her husband and her family were to spend time on the Mendocino coast in Northern California, where "it should be very cold and foggy, a refreshing change after D.C.!" This area...

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