"We are not aiming to fund the next good idea, but to invest in people," – Jason Shanks, President of OSV Institute.
Ahead of the canonisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman on Sunday, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin spoke at the Irish College in Rome about the Saint’s relevance in Ireland today.
“Christian responses to persecution are almost always nonviolent and, with very few exceptions, do not involve acts of terrorism,” states recent report.
Fr Greg Boyle, who is credited with having reduced gangland deaths in Los Angeles, joins President John F. Kennedy, Dorothy Day and Martin Sheen, as a recipient of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal.
All proceeds to go to the Cardinal Hume Centre, which helps families and young people overcome poverty and homelessness.
“In our age of flattened earth, narrowed horizons, conformity to a shallow consumerism and superficial variety that masks a deeper conformity, the role of the Church is to be the Church."
Top US catholic university, Notre Dame, and Benedictine community open centre to advance shared spiritual, cultural and educational missions.
