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Summer 2016 The Catholic University of America MAGAZINE Year of mercy The Catholic University of America MAGAZINE 20–35 20 Breaking the 26 Speaking the 30 Freedom Chains Same Language Fighters Members of the Catholic School of Nursing students Professors and students at the University community stand learn to provide health care law school are working for a up for those affected by in Hispanic communities by more just criminal justice human trafficking. speaking their patients’ native system. language. University Celebrates Summer 2016, Vol. 29, No. 2 Record Year of Giving! Page 4 Editor in Chief Jacquelyn Malcolm Managing Editor Ellen N. Woods Associate Editors Katie Bahr Lisa Carroll Meghan Duke Mary McCarthy Hines Catherine Lee Greg Varner Contributors Regina Conley Bethencourt Regina McFadden DiLuigi Emily L. Wagner Watch the honoree spotlight videos from the Cardinals Tribute Dinner by visiting William Warren www.cua.edu/cardinalstributevideos Art Director Donna Hobson Graphic Designers Departments Lara Fredrickson Kristin Reavey From Nugent Hall ..................................................................................2 Photographer Dana Rene Bowler Forum......................................................................................................3 John Garvey News@CUA ............................................................................................4 President Cardinal Athletics ..................................................................................18 Kyra Lyons Assistant Vice President for Alumni News ........................................................................................36 Alumni Relations and Class Notes ............................................................................................40 University Advancement The Catholic University of America Magazine is distributed three times annually by the To view videos and photo galleries on University events covered in this issue, visit Office of Marketing and Communications. Correspondence for the magazine should cuamagazine.cua.edu. be sent to the Office of Marketing and Communications, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064. (ISSN 1086-7473) The Catholic University of America Magazine Online We invite you to go online to view our website at cuamagazine.cua.edu. That’s where you’ll © 2016 by The Catholic University of America. find the digital edition of the magazine, photo galleries, web-only articles, and links to more information. Tell us what you think of the magazine, offer an idea, or comment on an article by sending an email to [email protected] or follow us through the Office of Alumni Relations on Twitter @CUAalumni or Facebook at facebook.com/CUAAlumni. You can call us at 202-319-5600. 02From Nugent Hall.qxp_Master Redesign 7/25/16 12:46 PM Page 2 FROM NUGENT HALL by President John Garvey ope Francis has proclaimed this a Jubilee Year of Mercy. It’s not mercy I’m The Power interested in. It’s asking for it. Repentance, unlike mercy, is not a divine attribute. It’s a virtue for sinners and stumblers. Maybe that’s why we’re so bad at it. One of our candidates for president put it this way last fall: “I think Papologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong.” of an St. Thomas says that the virtue of repentance has three effects: sorrow, confession, and satisfaction. It’s the second part we struggle with. We don’t like to say we’re sorry. We say “Sorry but ...”. This is what the lawyers call confession and avoidance. Adam admitted he ate the apple. But, he said, “It was the woman you gave me who Apology gave me the fruit.” Like it was Eve’s fault. Or God’s! We say “Sorry if I offended you.” This is the jiujitsu apology. It cleverly shifts the weight of blame. It wasn’t my failing, but your thin skin or wrong-headedness. In this issue of The Catholic University of America Most often we don’t apologize at all. We wait for things to blow over. Or, feeling Magazine, we have three feature articles dedicated to topics contrite but reluctant to go the whole hog, we make amends without an apology. of mercy (pages 20–35) in honor of this Jubilee Year of Mercy. Agamemnon did this in the Iliad, after taking Briseis from Achilles. To appease In keeping with this theme, we asked President Garvey to Achilles’s wrath he offered to return her along with vast wealth. But as Maimonides share his well-received Commencement remarks to the Class observes, “Someone who injures a colleague or damages his property does not of 2016 with magazine readers. It has been edited for space. attain atonement, even though he pays him what he owes, until he confesses.” A good apology follows a simple formula: name the offense, say you’re sorry, ask forgiveness. In The Wind in the Willows Mole tips over Rat’s boat after ignoring Rat’s instruction. The miserable and wet Mole then says: “Ratty, my generous friend! I am very sorry indeed for my foolish and ungrateful conduct ... Indeed, I have been a complete ass, and I know it. Will you overlook this once and forgive me, and let things go on as before?” The effect is remarkable. Rat replies at once: “That’s all right, bless you!” And they go on, closer friends than before. Repent! A strange message for a commencement address. You’d expect to see it on a sign in Lafayette Park: The end is near! But for graduates on their way out into the world, it’s way more important than remembering to wear sunscreen. I have been married for 41 years and I have five children, all now grown up. I have had a lot of opportunities to apologize. I have learned that repentance is the duct tape of family life. It can fix anything. “The right words, spoken at the right time,” Pope Francis said, “daily protect and nurture love.” I promise you. Your life will be happier if you cultivate the virtue of repentance. This sounds counterintuitive. We think of penitents wearing sackcloth and ashes. But when you apologize, you open the door for mercy. And mercy brings peace. Those are the words of absolution: “May God grant you his pardon and peace.” So make a practice of apologizing. Make confession a part of your routine. At the entrance to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception there is a Holy Door opened for this Jubilee Year, for penitents to walk through to receive God’s mercy. That’s us. Before you leave today make a short pilgrimage. It will be a wonderful way to begin the next stage of your journey. 2 The Catholic University of America Magazine Congrats #CUA2016 graduates! “It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.” (From Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery) FORUM @CUAEnglish Comments from the CUA community The cover of your most recent issue (spring Twitter 2016) of The Catholic University of America Magazine, “Mysteries of the Universe” utilizes a photograph of the Milky Way coursing through the area of the constellation Cygnus (the Swan). Interestingly, in the exact center of the image you used is found the asterism called The Northern Cross. The Northern Cross is com- posed of most of the main stars which make up Cygnus, but looked at from a reversed per- spective. In the image on the cover, the head of the cross (tail of the swan) is the brightest star I appreciated the opportunity to write the story Deneb (alpha Cygni), the foot of the cross about my grandfather’s life in the spring issue (head of the swan) is Albireo (beta Cygni), with of the magazine (“The Only Way Was @CatholicUniv ... just saw Catholic in a the cross bar (wings of the swan) made up of Forward,” page 30). Since the article came out, Jeopardy clue!!! The question was “What is the stars delta, gamma, and epsilon Cygni. we have heard from many that the story the Orange Bowl!” #cuaalumni #GoCards I do not know if you were aware or intended touched them. That was so gratifying for my @StaceyMoyers to have the Northern Cross so presented. If grandfather. I wanted to share an update to the you were and did, good for you! It is iconically article. My grandfather recently received fitting for the primary magazine of a Catholic word that he won his appeal against the U.S. I’m officially registered for Freshman Christian institution dedicated to extolling the Department of Veterans Affairs. A district Orientation @CatholicUniv and couldn’t be unity of faith and reason. And if you were court held them accountable for unquestion- more excited! #CUA 2020 unaware, how fortuitous (and perhaps guided?) able error in their original 1952 decision to @Emma_Flanagan was your choice! deny him disability payment. I’m not sure how — Otto R. Piechowski, B.A. 1977, M.A. 1978 much the article had to do with it since it’s been in process for a while but I’m sure it lent Editor’s Note: We must admit it was the latter. validity to his case. Letters — Regina Conley Bethencourt, B.A. 2013 When the spring issue came yesterday, I imme- diately checked for news and departures of my generation of students (1954–58), then went on to the articles. I especially enjoyed the story Quoted of Gale Brown (“The Only Way Was Forward,” “Judgment is protected and nurtured by page 30) and found it overall an excellent stepping away from the work. Sleeping is not a issue, one in which an alumna can take pride. moral failure. You arise refreshed in a way that — Patricia Malarcher, M.F.A. 1958 allows you to see your work in a new light.” — FBI Director James B. Comey Jr. speaking Thank you so much for the interview with to students at the Columbus School of Law on Dr. [Thérèse-Anne] Druart (spring 2016, page April 12 as part of the Brendan Brown Lecture 8). It brought back fond memories of my Series.