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An Ignatian educator's response to supporting immigrants and refugees...Our broken immigration system is much more than a daily headline in the news. It has contributed to injustices that intimately affect people worldwide. From family separation at the U.S. southern border, to the detention and deportation of loved ones, to the widespread challenges that undocumented communities face, immigrants and refugees have repeatedly responded with resilience and resistance.In this volume, the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition at the University of San Francisco has compiled essays from educators across the Jesuit network offering testimonies, best practices, and methods on how we ought to respond to the realities of global migration with courage, compassion, and coaction.

The essays in this volume, in different ways, invite the reader to consider Catholic identity not only in terms of who we are but what are we for? To be sure, identity and mission are deeply interconnected but offer different starting points for reflection on formation.The authors of this volume, working in Catholic higher education, elementary and secondary education, Catholic social services and pastoral ministries-articulate a number of challenges when it comes to formation around Catholic identity.How does the Catholic identity of a college or university enter into the curriculum and institutional practices of a community?How does Catholic identity contribute to the training and self-understanding of educators in elementary and secondary schools?How does an organization inspire and empower the laity into leadership?At the heart of these questions is the challenge of building the common good within the Church and for the world.

Begin a dialogue on racial justice, reconciliation, and transformation. In April of 2017, the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought at the University of San Francisco sponsored a roundtable discussion on race and incarceration. The event brought together the wisdom of formerly incarcerated activists and leaders with artists, ministers and scholars of various disciplines-law, sociology, theology, critical race theory, and pastoral ministry. Participants investigated the historical, legal, and political structures behind the mass incarceration of people of color in the United States. It also explored the impact of the criminal justice system on individuals and families while identifying the ethical and theological dimensions of this reality. The intent of the roundtable was to use the Jesuit tradition of consciousness-raising to bridge the resources of the university with those of the community.The roundtable created a space for all participants to begin a dialogue on racial justice, reconciliation, and transformation. The discussion not only exposed the historical, social, legal, and ethical dimensions of racial injustice in our prisons; it highlighted the resilience and strategies of resistance among incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. In particular, the conversation and resulting essays lifted up the role of spirituality and creative expression as essential to the survival and transformation of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. This book is an expression and expansion of that conversation.

On April 10-11, 2015 the University of San Francisco hosted the national conference, "Islam at U.S. Jesuit Colleges and Universities." The overall aim of the conference was to examine the evolution of the mission, objectives, and identity of Catholic Jesuit colleges and universities in light of the expansion of the study of Islam and the growing presence of Muslims on Jesuit campuses. Participants representing 24 of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities examined some of the theological implications of supporting Islamic studies as part of Jesuit education, as well as possibilities and challenges of Christian-Muslim encounters at Jesuit institutions. On the one-year anniversary of the conference, this volume consists of the written versions of the remarks delivered by the 7 of the 18 speakers at the conference. Their talks served as starting points for longer discussions involving all conference attendees collectively. Thus, this issue provides a partial but valuable record of the territory covered by the event over both days. -adapted from the Introduction by Aysha Hidayatullah

Bishop Robert W. McElroy published "A Church for the Poor" in America Magazine on Oct. 21, 2013. Following conversations with colleagues at Santa Clara University, the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, and Faith in Public Life, the Lane Center pulled together a roundtable of scholars, activists, and religious leaders to meet with Bishop McElroy and discuss how best to support his challenge, engage the Catholic intellectual tradition, and transform the public political conversation across the western United States and the rest of the country. On April 4, 2014, 20 participants, including Bishop McElroy and the authors in this volume, met on the campus of the University of San Francisco for a daylong gathering centered on the issue of poverty and the task of getting poverty back on the political agenda for the American Catholic Church. This volume combines the voices of theologians and activists, ministers and ethicists. Such collaboration, we believe, is crucial for taking on the challenge initiated by Pope Francis and contextualized in the U.S. by Bishop McElroy because becoming the church of the poor and for the poor necessitates multiple levels of transformation-political, moral, theological, and personal.