All Articles: John J. DeGioia

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Signing Ceremony for Center for Transnational Legal Studies — London, UK

It seems fitting that we engage in this historic opportunity in this historic setting—and it’s appropriate that we sign what is very much a landmark document in what was once…

October 28, 2008

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Queen’s University Belfast Honorary Degree Ceremony: The Role of the University in Fostering Interreligious Understanding

It is truly a privilege to be here with you this evening, and I am deeply moved by your recognition. This is an honor beyond words for.…

September 26, 2008

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Defining the Challenges, Embracing Leading Solutions: Remarks at Notre Dame’s Annual Athletic and Academic Retreat

My comments will place our engagement in intercollegiate athletics in the context of the broader work of the university and pose some questions regarding the trajectory of this…

August 18, 2008

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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

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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

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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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Establishing the LGBTQ Resource Center

Dear Members of the Georgetown University Community, We write today to provide you with an update on our LGBTQ Initiative. As you know, in mid-October we launched an effort to…

February 7, 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

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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

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Reflections on Respect, Inclusion and Diversity

I am writing in response to important dialogue that has been raised over the past few weeks related to problems of intolerance and discrimination, particularly those motivated by…

October 9, 2007