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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

A child and his mother use the Mardi Gras platforms in front of Touro Synagogue at a Mardi Gras parade on Saturday, Feb. 22. Loyola students helped build the platforms as a Mardi Gras service project.

Honors students build Mardi Gras platforms for children

BURKE BISCHOFF February 27, 2014

A local Jewish synagogue asked Loyola honors students to build parade stands and entertain disabled children and their families for Mardi Gras parades. Touro Synagogue, located on 4238 St. Charles Ave.,...

Brief: French monks will host prayer service

The Maroon February 20, 2014

Monks from Taize, France, will hold a Taize prayer service at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, in the Ignatius Chapel. The service will be led by monks from the Taize Community, a monastic order in France.  

Brief: Awakening is last to be held at old site

The Maroon February 20, 2014

This spring's Awakening Retreat will be the last to be held at Camp Whispering Pines, the retreat's traditional site. The retreat will be held, beginning in the fall semester, at a site at Fountainbleu...

Loyola music students earn money singing at churches

KYLEE MCINTYRE February 20, 2014

English writing senior and music minor Emma Grimsley has spent the last three years going to church every Sunday - for work. Like several music students at Loyola, Grimsley earns money with a church choir...

Choir for Hire

Choir for Hire

MARLIN WILLIFORD February 20, 2014

Emma Grimsley, English writing senior, and Matthew Higginbotham, music therapy senior, sing at choir practice at St. Charles Baptist Church. Grimsley and Higginbotham, like other Loyola music students,...

Brief: Sephardic Jews offered citizenship

Associated Press February 20, 2014

MADRID (AP) - The Spanish conservative government plans to make amends with the implementation of a law expected to be passed within weeks or months. The law, to be passed in Spanish Parliament, offers...

Brief: Archdiocese settles abuse lawsuit for $13 million

Associated Press February 20, 2014

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will pay $13 million to settle 17 clergy abuse lawsuits, including 11 that involve a visiting Mexican priest who fled prosecution and remains...

Column:Student finds spiritual solace at silent retreat

Column:Student finds spiritual solace at silent retreat

EMILY SZKLARSKI February 13, 2014

Silence can be awkward. Silence can be seem like a thousand years of anticipation. Silence can be lonely. Silence also can be the most awesome thing ever, as I learned this past weekend. The Emmaus Retreat,...

Hungarian Jews protest memorial

Associated Press February 13, 2014

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities said Sunday that it will boycott all government events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary unless the...

Lecture examines post-colonial faith

Lecture examines post-colonial faith

MIKE MOEN February 13, 2014

Judith Gruber, assistant professor of systematic theology, answers questions after her presentation "Displaced Christianities: Mapping Post-Colonial Theology" on Thursday, Feb. 6. Gruber, Yamauchi series...

Religious clash in African nation leaves 75 dead

Associated Press February 6, 2014

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) - Clashes between Muslim and Christian residents have left at least 75 people dead in a single town, a local priest said Monday, while heavy fighting broke out between...

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