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ON JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION Fall 2014 • Number 46 Mission Integration With Pope Francis and Catholicism Today FALL 2014 NUMBER 46 Members of the National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education ON JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION Laurie Ann BriTT-SmiTh UniversiTy of DeTroiT Mercy Mission Integration KrisTin Heyer SanTa Clara UniversiTy PaTrick J. Howell, S.J. With Pope Francis and Catholicism Today SeaTTle UniversiTy STeven Mailloux Loyola MarymounT UniversiTy 2 The People’s Pope, Patrick Howell, S.J. James McCarTin 6 Next Steps in Jesuit Higher Education, Stephanie Russell Fordham UniversiTy Barbara Mujica Diana Owen 9 A Committed Life, GeorgeTown UniversiTy 13 Salt and Leaven, David C. McCallum, S.J. STephen C. RownTree, S.J. Loyola UniversiTy New Orleans 15 Board Governance in the Ignatian Tradition, Debra K. Mooney Edward W. SchmidT, S.J. 17 “Jesuit Sí, Catholic Not So Sure” Revisited, David O’Brien InsTiTuTe of JesuiT Sources 19 Mission Integration in the Natural Sciences, Sherilyn G. F. Smith Michael Sheeran, S.J. PresidenT, AJCU 21 Discerning Finances through the Lens of Mission, Connie Kanter ex officio 23 “Leading Lives That Matter,” Janet L. Rumfelt, Franklin Medford, Sherilyn G.F. SmiTh Le Moyne College and Elisa Robyn Thomas Smolich, S.J. 25 Making Sacrifices to Enhance Mission, Michael Sheeran, S.J. PresidenT, JesuiT Conference ex officio 27 Finding God in All Things, Karen Peterson-Iyer William E. STempsey, S.J. 29 Between Image and Audience, Michael F. Tunney, S.J. College of The Holy Cross 31 my MAGIS, Paula Uruburok-Castro, Mark J. Piatkowski PaTrick J. Howell, S.J., chair STephen C. RownTree, S.J., sec. Edward W. SchmidT, S.J., ediTor How Four schools tackle mission integration Conversations is published by The 32 Gonzaga Students Harvest Gold in Zambia, Josh Armstrong NaTional Seminar on JesuiT Higher EducaTion, which is joinTly spon - 33 Magis Catholic Teacher Corps, John Roselle, S.J. sored by The JesuiT Conference Board and The Board of The 33 Inside-Out, Kathleen Shull AssociaTion of JesuiT Colleges and UniversiTies. The opinions sTaTed 34 Animating the Mission in the First-Year Incentive Program, John Kerrigan herein are Those of The auThors and noT necessarily Those of The JC or The AJCU. 35 Vocation at Work, Elspeth Rossetti and Elizabeth Krishnan CommenTs and inquiries may be 38 The Jesuit Mission in Higher Education, Linda LeMura addressed To The ediTor of Conversations Edward W. SchmidT, S.J. Talking Back InsTiTuTe of JesuiT Sources 3601 Lindell Boulevard 39 Eloquentia Perfecta : A Way of Proceeding, Robert J. Parmach ST. Louis, MO. 63108 Phone: 314-633-4622 e-mail: [email protected] Book Reviews For informaTion abouT subscripTions To Conversations: 41 The Ignatian Adventure: Experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of STephen C. RownTree, S.J. Saint Ignatius in Daily Life, William E. Stempsey, S.J. SecreTary To The NaTional Seminar on JesuiT Higher EducaTion 42 When the Gospel Grows Feet: Rutilio Grande, SJ, Loyola UniversiTy New Orleans 1575 Calhoun STreeT and the Church of El Salvador, Diana Owen New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504 865 2781 43 The New Dawn of Pope Francis, Joseph A. Tetlow, S.J. e-mail: [email protected] Conversations back issues are available online aT Photo Collages http://epublications.marquette. 12 Saint Louis University • 40 Loyola University Chicago edu/conversations/ Design and layouT by Pauline Heaney. PrinTed by Peacock PrinTing & Front Cover: Pope Francis greets the pilgrims during his weekly general audience in St Peter's Square. Graphics, Lincoln Park, N.J. giulio napolitano / Shutterstock.com From the Editor Integrating the Mission: Strong Ideals, Brave Words, Real Action nce iT was clear. If you had JesuiTs and They had academic vice presidenT. MosT likely The dean of arTs and sci - a school, iT was a JesuiT school. ThaT was JesuiT ences had To be a JesuiT, and probably The chair of Theology educaTion. When GeorgeTown was founded in Too. A JesuiT direcTor of campus minisTry was clearly neces - O1789, iT was noT a JesuiT school and did noT sary, and a JesuiT in fundraising was really imporTanT. And become one officially unTil JesuiTs arrived in 1805. (The JesuiTs JesuiTs had To conTrol The board of TrusTees. These were seri - were mosTly suppressed from 1773 To 1814, buT a remnanT lived ous men, dedicaTed, concerned. They knew JesuiT educaTion on in Russia. The firsT JesuiTs aT GeorgeTown were affiliaTed wiTh and wanTed iT To go on. Them.) OTher schools ThaT bishops had founded also laTer JesuiT educaTion does go on. In The inTervening years, we became JesuiT schools, such as Spring Hill, ST. Louis, and Xavier. have come To see ThaT The JesuiT characTer of educaTion does There was no greaT Theory of JesuiT educaTion. And There was noT belong To The JesuiTs alone. IT is parT of The mission of The no need To Talk of mission inTegraTion; iT was obvious. school. IT belongs To everyone who works There and To every The number of schools grew and grew as bishops wanTed sTudenT who goes There To learn. IT is embedded in a lan - To provide for Their burgeoning CaTholic populaTions, and immi - guage rooTed in JesuiT TradiTion, even if ThaT language is fluid granT groups included JesuiTs who knew from Their TradiTion if and sTill developing. The inTegraTion of The ideals and The noT from personal experience how To organize schools. The words ThaT express The ideals inTo The mission of The schools JesuiT schools were Typically six-year colleges, which were com - is The maTTer for The sTories in This issue of Conversations . mon in The UniTed STaTes unTil The early 20Th cenTury, when The Mission inTegraTion applies To courses, To sTudenT life, To hir - four-year high schools and four-year colleges became sTandard. ing, To finances, To unique programs ThaT are The fruiT of indi - As ciTies expanded inTo suburbs, JesuiTs builT new high viduals’ creaTive imaginaTion and energy. schools There. RecenT decades have seen The foundaTion of JesuiT educaTion received a big boosT wiTh The elecTion of The CrisTo Rey schools and JesuiT NaTiviTy and oTher middle The firsT JesuiT pope lasT year. One of our lead arTicles schools, expanding The scope of JesuiT educaTion. And JesuiT explores how The leadership sTyle of Pope Francis boTh sup - parishes have grade schools or preschool, Though one does porTs and challenges JesuiT higher educaTion. noT hear much Theory abouT a disTincTive JesuiT parish school. One Thing is clear. JesuiT educaTion is as alive as iT ever In a word, JesuiT educaTion flourished. was, lived ouT in greaT varieTy buT wiTh a core experience of JesuiT educaTion began To change, however, in significanT The values ThaT ST. IgnaTius Loyola lefT To his followers. IT lives ways. As The number of schools grew and The schools Them - on The many campuses of our 28 AJCU schools as iT does Too selves expanded, The concenTraTion of JesuiTs in Them began To in The JesuiT high schools and even elemenTary schools. IT is lessen. Trends in church life saw fewer men becoming JesuiTs properly proud and always eager To find new arTiculaTion. and saw greaTer demand for Those who were available. The And if There is sTill no one greaT unified Theory of JesuiT edu - schools became far more complex, and The JesuiTs who had The caTion, iT is as real as The lives of our faculTies and sTaffs, our needed leadership skills were sTreTched Thin To cover The diverse sTudenTs and Their families. Mission inTegraTion? We are work - JesuiT minisTries. And dedicaTed and fully compeTenT Teachers ing on iT, and working very well. and adminisTraTors who were noT JesuiTs began To fill leadership (A final noTe: we congraTulaTe our designer and arT direc - posiTions aT all level. WhaT was JesuiT educaTion now? Tor, Pauline Heaney, and her husband Thomas; Their oldesT I vividly recall conversaTions aT a JesuiT universiTy in The son Connor begins his JesuiT educaTion This fall aT ST. PeTer’s 1970s. There venerable faThers debaTed whaT were The essen - Prep in Jersey CiTy. The TradiTion lives!) ■ Tial posiTions for JesuiTs To fill if The school conTinued To be and To call iTself JesuiT. CerTainly The presidenT had To be a Edward W. SchmidT, S.J., ediTor JesuiT, and cerTainly major vice presidenTs, parTicularly The ConversaTions 1 Thhee PPeeoopplel’es ’s A Gift and a Challenge Pfor the AOcademicP World E By Patrick Howell, S.J. n jusT shorT of 18 monThs, The new pope Jorge creaTed new, posiTive avenues for CaTholic educaTion. The Mario Bergoglio, who Took The name Francis, has implicaTions are many, buT I will focus on only a few signif - capTured The world’s imaginaTion and broughT a icanT Trends, which I hope will be suggesTive for our research remarkably brighT new image To The CaTholic and Teaching wiThin The AJCU TradiTion. Church. Much has already been wriTTen abouT a series Jesuit spirituality and Franciscan of “firsTs” for This pope: The firsT pope from LaTin America, The firsT pope in 16 cenTuries from ouTside charism of Europe, and significanTly for Conversations read - ers The firsT JesuiT pope. In The now famous papal inTerview published in English in The innovaTions go on. From The beginning he America magazine ( A Big Heart Open to God, SepT. 19, 2013), eschewed all papal regalia. He prefers To be known simply Fr. AnTonio Spadero, S.J., begins by blunTly asking Pope as The Bishop of Rome, raTher Than PonTifex Maximus, Your Francis, “Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?” AfTer a long pause, Holiness, PaTriarch of The WesT, or all The oTher TiTles ThaT The pope responds, “I am a sinner.” He adds, “IT is noT a fig - have accumulaTed since The Time of ConsTanTine.