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Website to Serve as Resource for Organizations Serving the Poor
Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service (GSS) has launched a website offering faith-based resources for the area’s poor through its Bertram Beck Institute for Religion and Poverty.
The site operates as a referral page where members of the faith community, the University and professional organizations can connect with others who advocate for and work with people in need. The website links to approximately 45 agencies and support organizations providing services to groups ranging from the homeless to those with substance abuse or mental health issues.
According to Anita Lightburn, Ph.D., associate professor of social service and director of the Beck Institute, the site will include transcripts from Beck-sponsored conferences, as well as articles and messages of inspiration from programs and congregations throughout the area.
“Right now the site operates for those within the faith community and the University community who want to work on issues of poverty,” she said. “There aren’t too many resources for linkages of resources, and we hope our site acts as a catalyst and a collaborative within the New York metropolitan area.”
Dale Lindquist, D.S.W., associate director of the Beck Institute, said that the goal is eventually to develop the site into a national resource for religious congregations that manage poverty programs.
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Ailey/Fordham Students Perform at Holland Dance Festival in The Hague
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Members of The Ailey School performed at the Holland Dance Festival earlier this month.
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When The Ailey School—the official school of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater—made its first-ever appearance at the Holland Dance Festival in The Hague on Nov. 14 and 15, the 13-member troupe included 12 Fordham University students.
Eleven of the students—Jacqueline Burnett, Taeler Cyrus, Fana Fraser, Daniel Harder, Demetia Hopkins, Ethan Kirschbaum, Jennifer Locke, Levi Marsman, Amy McClendon, Jordan McHenry and Lilli-Ann Tai—are enrolled in the four-year Ailey/Fordham Bachelor of Fine Arts program.
They performed with Ailey fellowship students Lindsey Holmes, a Fordham junior studying literature, and Christopher Bordenave in a joint program with the Rotterdam Dance Academy. The program featured Eroica, choreographed by Francesca Harper, and First Exposure by Darrell Moltrie. The Festival, which ran from Oct. 30 through Nov. 18, offered workshops and dance performances from many of the world’s best dance companies and schools.
The Ailey/Fordham BFA program, inaugurated in 1997, is a fully accredited four-year degree program in which students take a broad curriculum of dance techniques while enrolled full time in non-dance academic courses at Fordham. At the completion of the program, The Ailey School and Fordham present their students in a fully produced performance in The Ailey Citigroup Theater.
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Cardinal Dulles: Those Who Seek God’s Grace Can Be Saved
Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, took up the issue of salvation in his biannual lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 7, telling an audience of some 500 people at Fordham Preparatory School that God exists in every human conscience and those who seek God’s grace, regardless of their religion or lack of it, can reach the kingdom of heaven.
Delivering his 38th McGinley Lecture at the Leonard Theater on the Rose Hill campus, Cardinal Dulles discussed “Who Can Be Saved?” by tracing theologians’ answers to the question over the centuries. He said that from the New Testament through the Middle Ages, the common view was that only those who accepted Christianity were saved.
But he said the teaching of the popes from Pius IX in the 19th century to the present and the documents produced during the Second Vatican Council have provided a more positive view of salvation for non-Christians. Indeed, the cardinal told the gathering that God speaks to everyone—be they Jew, Muslim and even atheist—and expresses a “universal salvific will,” or the longstanding idea that God desires the salvation of every person. But salvation is not automatic. Those who resist the grace of God are doomed, Cardinal Dulles said.
The cardinal added that Christian believers have many aids to salvation not available outside the Church. For this reason they have the responsibility of sharing the gift of revealed truth with others.
Cardinal Dulles’ lecture was part of Ignatian Heritage Week 2007. He was assisted in his presentation by Thomas Smith, S.J., Jesuit superior at Loyola Hall. Considered the preeminent Catholic theologian in the country, Cardinal Dulles has published 23 books and more than 800 articles, essays and reviews.
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Students have a blast at the fifth annual President’s Ball at the McGinley Center Ballroom on Oct. 26. The annual gala drew hundreds of students to enjoy a night of music and dancing at the Rose Hill campus.
Photo by Ryan Brenizer |
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