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Service, Singing, and Cultural Celebrations

A Graduating Senior Looks Back on Four Years of Catholic Life at Georgetown* By: Jennon Bell Hoffmann For many graduating seniors, the final weeks on the Hilltop can be hectic…

May 26, 2026

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Caring for the Whole Person, Spiritually and Beyond

A First-year Student Explores What it Means to be Catholic in the Classroom and on Campus By: Jennon Bell Hoffmann For Felicity Kushner (N’29), Georgetown’s Jesuit identity…

May 26, 2026

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It’s Never Too Late: On Becoming a Bar/Bat Mitzvah at Georgetown

By Rabbi Ilana Zietman, Director for Jewish Life “You don’t really have a bar or bat mitzvah, you become one.” This is how I like to begin the opening session of Jewish&…

May 14, 2026

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Faithful Questions: Reflections from a New York Pilgrimage

By Grace Molla (C’28) Having now gone on this pilgrimage twice, I can confidently say that it is a spiritually renewing experience for our Orthodox community at Georgetown.…

May 14, 2026

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Finding Balance, Community, and Room to Ask Questions

Protestant Life offers a first-year student open-ended space and support By: Jennon Bell Hoffmann For Autumn Dunlop, a first-year student at Georgetown University, college has…

April 24, 2026

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Magis Immersion Seminar: Walking in the Footsteps Of St. Ignatius

By Yasin Khan (SFS’26) This was one of the first pictures that I took while on the pilgrimage. I felt going to the Guggenheim was a very fitting first destination because of…

April 7, 2026

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Magis Immersion Seminar: St. Paul’s Letters in Greece

By Elle Marinello (C‘28) This photo was from the first day of the trip. After getting up very early in the morning after a long day of travel, we started the day in the…

April 1, 2026

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Magis Immersion Seminar: Neighbors and Strangers in Poland

A Photo Essay by Avanthika Suryadevara (H‘27) and Ella Montano (C‘28) Spring 2026 marked the first-ever Neighbors and Strangers: Catholic-Jewish Encounters to Poland, a Magis…

March 30, 2026

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Finding Faith at a Jesuit Institution

Muslim students learn that faith is not an afterthought at Georgetown By: Jennon Bell Hoffmann At Georgetown University, faith is not an afterthought. While it is built around…

March 17, 2026

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Faith, Friendship, and Boba Tea: Seniors Share their Experience as Interfaith Fellows

By: Jennon Bell Hoffmann When Saara Bidiwala (C’26) first applied to Georgetown, she wasn’t only looking at academics. She was thinking about faith. “I remember, ‘…

February 6, 2026