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

Speeches by President DeGioia

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