Just before the end of 2010, the Catholic Church affirmed that an appearance of the Virgin Mary in a Wisconsin farm some 151 years ago was an authentic Marian apparition. It’s the first such site in the United States. As Fr. Tom Rausch, a professor in Theological Studies, told the Los Angeles Times, this...
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Philosophy professor Christopher Kaczor outlined several reasons to oppose same-sex marriage when he was interviewed by the Catholic News Agency on the subject: divorce rates could rise if same-sex couples represent less stable marriages, since they cannot raise a biological child of both parents. On the other hand, Political Science professor Evan Gerstmann notes...
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During her time with Virginia Democrat Tom Perriello’s campaign, Rebecca Sager observed and studied the habits of faith voters — evangelicals and others who identify religion as an important issue in how they decide to vote. Her work has drawn attention before, particularly her book Faith, Politics, and Power. More recently, she was quoted...
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Political Science professor Richard Fox is an expert in gender politics and the co-author of It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office. He’s quoted regularly, in this case in the Salt Lake Tribune, on the challenges facing women who choose to seek elective office.
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History professor Jok Madut Jok has been in Southern Sudan, a region expected to become an independent country after a vote on separation in mid-January. Jok is working in the ministry of culture for the autonomous region of Sudan and has been profiled by the Associated Press and quoted in the UK Guardian, among...
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Election Day brings calls from news media for political experts, and LMU’s faculty respond. Political Science professor Michael Genovese, who holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership and is the director of the Institute for Leadership Studies, was quoted by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News and Whittier Daily News on the issues the...
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Lynell George, professor of English and journalism, published two recent book reviews in the Los Angles Times: In August, she reviewed James Baldwin’s The Cross of Redemption, a volume of previously uncollected writings; and in September, she reviewed The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
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The Topanga Messenger profiles English professor Gail Wronsky and her work on the 2010 Bellarmine Forum.
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An entire article in the Los Angeles Times was devoted to research by Jeffrey Siker of Theological Studies. Siker analyzed President Obama’s use of biblical references in his key speeches and two memoirs, and found the president frequently invokes the Old Testament, particularly the Exodus story of liberation from slavery, and the “brother’s keeper”...
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“When Worlds Collide” is a PBS special co-written and hosted by English professor Rubén Martínez that aired in September. It explored the history of the Americas in the hundred years after contact between Europe and the “New” World. Martínez, the Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature and Writing at LMU, hopes the film can help...
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