A brave and necessary conversation on Catholicism and the consequences of reversing Roe, with @nimperatori and @MollieOReilly Honest, humane, smart.

"One night a chaplain recounted to her the story of a medieval Catholic military order, the Knights Hospitaller. The next day, Zinkevych resolved to create her own battalion. She started with six volunteers and a pickup truck." newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

The winner of the ACHA 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award is Dr. Caroline Walker Bynum. The Distinguished Scholar Award recognizes lifelong contributions to the field of Catholic studies. To read the full announcement, go to: achahistory.org/distinguished-….

As the Twitter ship may sink just as conference season begins, let me just say how proud I am of so many amazing friends and colleagues whose work we will be soon celebrating. Congratulations @KristyNabhan for the ACHA teaching and mentoring award this year! So well-deserved!

And so exciting to bestow ACHA honors on Dr. Caroline Walker Bynum for a lifetime of excellence in scholarship, and now decades-ago President of our guild! Absolutely changed our field for the better.

And deepest congratulations to the extraordinary Institute of Black Catholic Studies of Xavier in NOLA Xavier Univ. of LA for the ACHA Distinguished Service Award. Their scholarship and ministry is so incredible, so important. Congratulations and we can't wait to celebrate in January!

Mary Dunn's new book is seriously so, so good.

Welcome especially to Anthony B. Smith incoming VP at the American Catholic Historical Association, soon President. So happy to have Tony stepping, and congratulations!

Safe travels everyone going to the AAR! Very cool things planned for Catholic Studies in Denver...

Thank you so much ACHA! 🙏

Congratulations to CLAS professor and Associate Vice President for Research @KristyNabhan on being honored with the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Catholic Historical Association. Details: bit.ly/3uqvsvX

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The works of Ursula K. Le Guin remind us that our dreams are best hashed out with others—that our individualistic fantasies, however expansive, are best actualized when meshed in conversation and collaboration. The writer died #OnThisDay in 2018: bostonreview.net/articles/what-…

This was a really cool event yesterday, so much wisdom right on campus about the complexities of love, in all of its variety and abundance. Speakers were so good - students, faculty, and a campus psychologist. Reclaiming the holiday! news.fordham.edu/arts-and-cultu…

Lots of great responses to the New Yorker piece this week (which is excellent) on the humanities major....love the image of this class, what a great question for all of us.

Joining the chorus of devastated fans here, hoping to add a little more about her deep religious sensitivity and imagination that's often missing in our discussions of Sinead. Best of all, I link to some great obscure songs from her album Theology theconversation.com/sinead-oconnor…

New Scholar Essay Prize, Catholic Studies in the Americas-- Due Feb 15!!! $1500 prize. ABD or PhD 2017 or later. Curran Center Raúl E. Zegarra Brian J. Clites Kelly L. Schmidt Tuan Hoang fordham.edu/academics/cent…