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

It is an extraordinary honor for me to be here today and to share this moment with all of you. My name is somewhat deceiving. DeGioia is a Neapolitan name – my father’s…

August 18, 2008

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Yale Center for Faith & Culture Conference: Social Justice, Human Development and the Role of the Academy

I wish to extend my sincere appreciation to His Royal Highness Prince Ghazi, to Dean Attridge, to Professor Miroslav Volf and to Reverend Joseph Cumming, for our days here…

July 31, 2008

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St. John’s Medical School Commencement in Bangalore, India: Globalization, Social Justice and “Care of the Soul”

Thank you for that kind introduction. And thank you all for the extraordinary welcome you have given me on my first visit to India. I can certainly understand why local legend…

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

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100 Years of Georgetown Basketball

It is an honor to welcome you here tonight and to celebrate with you 100 years of Georgetown basketball. Tonight, we commemorate the remarkable achievements of all who have…

February 10, 2007

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Address on Building Diversity at Georgetown

Let me begin today by addressing an issue as timely as today’s front page. With the Supreme Court set to consider affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan,…

February 5, 2003

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President John J. DeGioia Inaugural Address: Engaging the Tensions, Living the Questions

Good afternoon, and thank you. It is a profound honor to accept this responsibility today as the 48th president of Georgetown University. I welcome and appreciate the missioning…

October 13, 2001

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Service and Social Justice Launch

Every day, Georgetown students fan out across the city of Washington, giving life to the words of our mission: “commitment to justice and the common good.” In…

October 11, 2001