Freezing temperatures haven’t kept Fordham University volunteers from trekking to Breezy Point, N.Y., several Saturdays each month to help those recovering from Hurricane Sandy. Students, alumni, faculty and staff are participating in these “Sandy Saturdays,”....
On September 14, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, joined Stephen Colbert, the host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” for a conversation about humor, faith and the spiritual life at Fordham University. The....
For generations, Jesuits have called Loyola Hall at Fordham University home. Now Fordham is buying the Gothic building that served as a Jesuit residence since 1928 for classroom and administrative use.
His Beatitude Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the new 41-year-old patriarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, received a doctorate of humane letters, honoris causa, at a ceremony in the University Church. More than 800 members of the Fordham, Catholic and Ukrainian communities filled the church to capacity.
A recent biographer notes that Poe "found intellectual and spiritual companionship" with the Jesuits at their college in the Bronx. The Jesuits, who sympathized with this starving artist, invited him to dinner many an evening, and gave him the use of their library.
Jesuit Father Joseph McShane, president of Fordham University, recently took part in a panel on colleges and their surrounding neighborhoods and said that colleges and universities must have a commitment to their neighborhood.
Refugees in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya are now able to study for a certificate in social services after Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) launched its first certificate program as part of a distance higher....
Jesuits in Conversation is a newly launched video project of the Fordham University Jesuit Community to introduce the Jesuits working at Fordham to the public. The interviews include Jesuit priests at Fordham, Jesuit visiting scholars....
Georgetown University has received the largest philanthropic gift in its history, an $87 million endowment to support medical research at the university’s medical center. The gift originated in a $1.2 million charitable trust established by....
