Georgetown University

Georgetown initiative spotlights work that remains on abuse crisis
- News Analysis
- Nov 8, 2019
America’s flagship Catholic universities this year seem to be channeling their inner Newman with regard to the society of the Church, launching major research initiatives, internal dialogues and public forums on the clerical sexual abuse crisis.
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Acting DHS head shouted down by protesters at immigration conference
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Oct 8, 2019
Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, could not get a word out.
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Church’s historic ties to slavery examined at Independence Day conference
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Jul 11, 2019
Independence Day took on a special poignancy at a conference for African American Catholics held a few miles from the nation’s capital, as participants at a July 4 workshop reflected on the Catholic Church’s connection to what has been called the country’s original sin — slavery.
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A matter of faith: Democrats embrace religion in campaign
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Jul 8, 2019
While Republicans have been more inclined to weave faith into their rhetoric, particularly since the rise of the evangelical right in the 1980s, several current Democratic White House hopefuls are explicitly linking their views on policy to religious values.
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Georgetown students vote for student fee to pay reparations over slavery
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Apr 14, 2019
Undergraduate students at Jesuit-run Georgetown University voted overwhelmingly April 11 to pay a new student fee that would be for reparations to the descendants of slaves owned and later sold by the school.
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Jesuit: Without the Amazon, ‘we all go under’
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Apr 2, 2019
The Catholic Church in Honduras, as well as in the Amazon and elsewhere, supports those who suffer because of the situations and consequences caused by the exploitation of natural resources and destruction of the environment.
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