ALUMNI VOICES Unity gathering of the 2014 freshmen orientation at the East Quad of the Lake Shore Campus. PHOTO BY NAN LI
What Loyola means to me A Jesuit education provides graduates with a true calling / BY MONICA HORTOBAGYI SINIFF
This essay originally appeared in USA TODAY’s special edition on Pope Francis’s United States visit in Septem- ber 2015. It is reprinted with permission.
When a former nun half-jokingly threatens to kneecap you in heaven if you don’t serve the impoverished, you’ve gotten a glimpse of the world of the Jesuits, an institution that is experiencing a
rebirth, of sorts, under the first Jesuit pope. Though many people discovered the Jesuits with the election of Pope Francis in 2013, this group’s legacy of service, commitment to
diversity, and relentless devotion play out in ways large and small daily in the United States and around the world. My introduction to the beauty, strength, and transformative
nature of a Jesuit education came at Loyola University Chicago in a diverse neighborhood on the city’s North Side. Something was im- mediately different on this campus of nearly 16,000 students, a place where Jesuits may convene with students at a bar one night and then join them in helping people in need the next. Loyola Chicago (as it’s colloquially known) is named for Ignatius
Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, the official name of the Jesuits. The school makes its home in a lower-income area, a setting
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