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As the Denver Jesuit university approaches its 150th anniversary, its 29th president — the first Black woman president to lead a U.S. Jesuit university — is looking to the future with a leadership philosophy rooted in prayer, listening and service.
A powerful sense of gratitude and hope was in the air on Regis University’s Denver campus on Friday, as the Jesuit, Catholic university’s first Black female president officially began her tenure.
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By Nicole Olea | Catholic Standard
Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns stood before a room of Black Catholic women celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Sisters in the Spirit group and asked them to think of a woman who had helped bring them to where they were.
Someone who had nurtured them. Guided them. Loved them. Challenged them.
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by Marie-Lucile Kubacki | Agenzia Fides
Rochester (Fides News Agency) – “All around us there are people who never stop hating someone or something, shouting: ‘Down with capitalism! Down with labor unions! Down with religion! Down with government! Down with economic royalists! Down with property! Down with this class! Down with that class!’ But I say ‘Up from class hate! Up from all hate! Let us stop downing things, and start looking up, up, up, up to God!’”
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By Dan Stockman | National Catholic Reporter
Marcia Freeman is tidying up, putting books away, pushing in chairs at the Peace Center in the Gert Town neighborhood of New Orleans.
She lives down the street, but this place feels like home: Freeman first started coming here with her mother, who has since died, to take computer classes. Now Freeman volunteers at the Peace Center and her grandchildren attend afterschool and summer programs here.
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Hidden in the hills of upstate New York, Rosa Mystica draws pilgrims with an unusual Padre Pio story and a mission centered on prayer for priests.
By Gigi Duncan | National Catholic Register
A white 1986 Acura Legend sits beneath a canopy on the grounds of Rosa Mystica House of Prayer in Edmeston, New York.
Rosaries lie across the dashboard. Prayer cards are tucked into the seats. Medals and other devotional offerings have accumulated where a passenger might once have left a coffee cup or a pair of sunglasses.