Tag: Jesuit Speakers

When people think of priests, all they consider is their spirituality and role as spiritual leaders within the Church community, failing to realize that priests, too, have personal lives and hobbies. On March 27th, two priests, Fr. Robert Murphy and  Fr. Edwin Leonard, a Jesuit and a diocesan respectively, spoke to students about their own paths to the priesthood and the...

German soldiers use hand grenades to exterminate all signs of life within the homes of Jewish Poles in the Warsaw Ghetto. Failing to massacre every Jew in hiding, they send the survivors to concentration camps throughout Poland and Germany. This is one of the many events witnessed by Max Glauben. On April 7, Jesuit welcomed Holocaust survivor Max Glauben,...

From president of Coca Cola in Mexico to President of Mexico itself, Vicente Fox has led a successful life, but professing never to have forgotten the less fortunate and always committed to the betterment of the people.  On  Nov. 8, some 20  Jesuit students from debate, student council, and the senior contemporary issues course heard Fox speak on numerous...

On the afternoon of November 8, 2011, Jesuit athletes and coaches from all sports flocked to Hughes Hall to see this year’s motivational speaker, Mike McCoy.  McCoy, a decorated professional football player of the mid-1970s, won numerous awards in his football career. His accolades include being named first team All-American in 1969 at Notre Dame and being recognized as...