All Articles: Speeches by President DeGioia
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- Speeches by President DeGioia
Yale Center for Faith & Culture Conference: Social Justice, Human Development and the Role of the Academy
I offer my brief reflections this morning from the perspective of a life lived within a university, a Catholic and Jesuit university, in fact the oldest Catholic university in…
July 31, 2008
- Speeches by President DeGioia
All-Class Reunion Mass 2008
I am very pleased to have this opportunity during Reunion Weekend to say one last time: Welcome Home. Poets and authors like to write that you can never go home again;…
June 1, 2008
- Speeches by President DeGioia
St. John’s Medical School Commencement in Bangalore, India: Globalization, Social Justice and “Care of the Soul”
As most of you are aware, more than 2,000 years ago, Asoka—the first ruler of virtually the entire Indian peninsula…whose symbol appears in the center of the Indian flag…
March 4, 2008
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Security and Globalization: Remarks at the US State Department
All of us are aware that nations are more interdependent, individuals more interconnected, and humanity less divided by narrow domestic walls. And as nations and peoples become…
November 14, 2007
- Speeches by President DeGioia
Remarks at Open Meeting on LGBTQ Student Resources
Our purpose in coming together this evening follows on a recent letter that I sent to all of the members of our.…
October 24, 2007
- Speeches by President DeGioia
Mass of the Holy Spirit 2007
We gather today, as one community, to joyfully mark the beginning of the academic year and in thanksgiving for the Holy Spirit—our helper and comforter whose gifts animate our…
August 28, 2007
- Speeches by President DeGioia
All-Class Reunion Mass 2007
I am very pleased to have this opportunity during Reunion Weekend to say one last time: Welcome.…
June 3, 2007
- Speeches by President DeGioia
Baccalaureate Mass 2007
This is a very special moment. All of you are poised between an ending and a beginning—the ending of your current studies on the Hilltop, and the beginning of the next stage of…
May 20, 2007
- Speeches by President DeGioia
100 Years of Georgetown Basketball
It is an honor to welcome you here tonight and to celebrate with you 100 years of Georgetown.…
February 10, 2007
- Speeches by President DeGioia
Jesuit Heritage Week 2006 Opening Mass
The impact of the Society of Jesus on this University is impossible to measure, for we would not even exist without.…
January 29, 2006