New Year’s, like Lent, is an opportunity to step back and reflect on our life, our life choices, and the direction we want to move towards. While we are very hopeful and energized by possibilities of a new year, we begin this year with a heavy heart, having lost one of our most beloved colleagues. Fr. Pat O'Leary served as a companion, teacher, spiritual director and formation director for so many people. It is my hope this year that we can embrace and carry with us the love and the wisdom that he shared with us, as ICTC continues our theme on "A Journey Towards Healing and Reconciliation." We hope you will be able to join us in our programming.
Our winter Catholic Heritage Lecture is February 9 with Fr. Bryan Massingale, professor at Fordham University, whose talk is titled "A Spirituality of Racial Metanoia." In keeping with our commitment to lift up the best of our Catholic intellectual tradition, we follow the Catholic Heritage lecture with a reading group on the book Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy, led by SU faculty members Drs. Michael Jaycox, Jason Wirth and Jessica Imanaka. It is our commitment and our pleasure to create these conceptual spaces for faculty and staff to come together and engage with current topics.
- Dr. Jeanette Rodriguez, ICTC Executive Director
Signs of the Times
-
Patrick O’Leary, S.J., a Jesuit beloved at Seattle University and beyond, died Jan. 5, at the age of 92. He served Seattle University for three decades, and was a foundation of Jesuit spirituality on campus. (SU Newsroom, 1/5)
-
Pope Benedict: Catholics in the United States are offering prayers and remembrances of former Pope Benedict XVI, whose death at age 95 the Vatican announced on Dec. 31, recalling his presence at the Second Vatican Council, his leadership as pope and his historic decision to step down from the papacy nearly 10 years ago. Read more about Pope Benedict's life and work in America Magazine.
-
President Biden's visit to the border: Biden, Benedict and immigration: How U.S. border policy violates Catholic teaching and Inside President Biden’s car ride along the border with Bishop Seitz (America, 1/9)
-
January 23 is the 20th Anniversary of Strangers No Longer Together on the Journey of Hope: A Pastoral Letter Concerning Migration from the Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the United States
-
If taken seriously, the synodal process could transform race relations in the US church (NCR, 1/9)
-
Did you know? Jesuit College Alumni comprise ten percent of the 118th US Congress (AJCU, 1/3)
-
Three predictions about what will make church news in 2023 (NCR, 1/2)
-
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27, an annual day of commemoration where we honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism.