98 Year Old NUN, Sister Jean of Loyola-Chicago is the real MVP of NCAA March Madness
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Time ^
| Mar 2018 | Cady Lang
The biggest college basketball fan during this year’s March Madness tournament is a 98-year-old nun by the name of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola-Chicago’s team chaplain. Sister
Jean Dolores, who was on hand to celebrate Loyola-Chicago’s buzzer beater victory over Miami, has been the basketball team’s chaplain since 1994, but has been a Ramblers fan for most of her life, witnessing the last time Loyola-Chicago won a tournament game, years ago. While the nun provides spiritual support and openly prays for victories for the team often asking the Higher Power to do his part so the team can do theirs,...
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Loyola makes No. 3 seed Tennessee its latest last-second conquest.
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ESPN.COM ^
| 03/17/18 | Sam Khan Jr.
DALLAS -- Sister Jean told Tennessee to "watch out." And
now the Vols have become the latest victim of Loyola's March magic. Loyola-Chicago is this season's first double-digit seed into the Sweet 16 after a dramatic 63-62 victory over No. 3 seed Tennessee and it did it with yet another dramatic buzzer-beating finish.
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Catholic Caucus: 200 pro-life posters torn down at Loyola Marymount University
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California Catholic Daily ^
Pro-life poster at LMU (image from The College Fix) Nearly 200 pro-life posters were taken down at a Catholic university by students who were reportedly upset the posters sought to highlight similarities between the issues of abortion and immigration.The posters included the phrases “Don’t abort my fellow humans,” “#NoHumanBeingIsIllegal,” and “#AbortionIsAnImmigrationIssue.”The
Padre Pio Society, a Catholic student group at Loyola Marymount University, had displayed scores of the anti-abortion posters across the Los Angeles campus earlier this month only to find them all removed less than two days later.Padre Pio Society members posted almost 200 posters around campus on the...
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Loyola recruits white students to become 'anti-racist allies'
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Campus Reform ^
| September 21, 2017 | Toni Airaksinen
Loyola University-Chicago is expanding a controversial program that trains white students to become “anti-racist, anti-supremacist White allies.” While
the school has offered the Ramblers Analyzing Whiteness (R.A.W.) program in the past, the number of recruits will nearly double this year, according to Loyola, which hopes to recruit at least 25 participants, more than double the 12 students who participated in 2016.
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Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-31-17, M, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest
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USCCB.org/RNAB ^
| 07-31-17 | Revised New American Bible
July 31, 2017 Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest Reading 1 Ex 32:15-24, 30-34Moses turned and came down the mountainwith the two tablets of the commandments in his hands,tablets that were written on both sides, front and back;tablets that were made by God,having inscriptions on them that were engraved by
God himself.Now, when Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting,he said to Moses, "That sounds like a battle in the camp."But Moses answered, "It does not sound like cries of victory,nor does it sound like cries of defeat;the sounds that I hear are cries of revelry."As he...
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Loyola-Chicago offers whites-only anti-racism group
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Campus Reform ^
| March 27, 2017 | Amber Athey
Students who “self identify as White” at Loyola University Chicago can apply to join a safe space to learn about white privilege, institutional racism, and internalized racism. RAW,
also known as Ramblers Analyzing Whiteness, is a small, closed group at LUC for white people to “engage in dialogue about their own racial identity” and “critically reflect on...their actions.”
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Loyola University Maryland under fire for response to student "USA" party
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The Baltimore Sun ^
| November 23, 2016 | Carrie Wells
When administrators at Loyola University Maryland got wind of a planned campus-wide student party with a "Party in the USA" theme, they say they began hearing concerns that students might show up in offensive costumes related to this month's presidential election. In
a series of emails, administrators urged Student Government Association members sponsoring the party to reconsider the theme, which they characterized as potentially divisive and harmful.
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Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-31-15, M, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest
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USCCB.org/RNAB ^
| 07-31-15 | Revised New American Bible
July 31, 2015 Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest Reading 1 Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37 The LORD said to Moses,“These are the festivals of the LORD which you shall celebrateat their proper time with a sacred assembly.The Passover of the LORD falls on the fourteenth day of the
first month,at the evening twilight.The fifteenth day of this month is the LORD’s feast of Unleavened Bread.For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.On the first of these days you shall hold a sacred assemblyand do no sort of work.On each of the seven days you shall...
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Loyola professor who called slavery 'not so bad' loses lawsuit against New York Times
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NOLA.com ^
| 5/12/15 | Jed Lipinski
A federal judge in New Orleans has thrown out a lawsuit filed against the New York Times by a Loyola University economics professor who had accused the newspaper of libel.
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Loyola-Chicago climate conference discusses 'nuts and bolts' of fossil fuel divestment
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National Catholic Reporter ^
| 3-25-2015 | James Hug
The second day of the three-day Loyola University Chicago Climate Change Conference began with a panel discussion on divestment from fossil fuels. The
Friday morning panel, titled “The Risks, Nuts, and Bolts of Divestment,” was chaired by Bruce Boyd, principal and senior managing director of Arabella Advisors, a company that works with foundations to improve planetary health and is now measuring global commitment to divestment from fossil fuels and reinvestment in alternative, clean energy sources. In his opening remarks, Boyd noted that divestments are currently at $50 billion and are expected to reach $150 billion by the start of the...
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Pagan Catholicism @ Loyola
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Accuracy in Academia ^
| October 26, 2014 | Malcolm A. Kline
When Catholic colleges and universities embrace diversity, Catholics should worry. “Loyola
University Chicago recently christened a new pagan student club, with its student organizer saying the group aims to help pupils at the private Catholic college find the God they seek, not just the one featured in the Bible,” Dominic Lynch, a student there, wrote on The College Fix on October 23, 2014. I’ll bet they didn’t have a hard time finding a faculty adviser. “The Loyola Student Pagan Alliance was granted official recognition by the university earlier this month by its Student Activities and Greek Affairs board,” Lynch reported....
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