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Long-distance Mentorship Offers a Global Experience
Business & LawWhen 3L Erin Herdeman was contemplating asking Laura Gisler '14 J.D. to be her mentor last year, she knew it would be a unique pairing considering the more than 4,000 miles separating them. But with a global pandemic forcing more people online to connect, distance became less of an issue than it might have been…
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Alumni Profile: Hiep Pham ’12 J.D.
Business & LawCargill, Senior Intellectual Property Counsel Why did you go to law school? I was a software engineer open to a career pivot. A friend (now my wife) was in law school and suggested I might enjoy it. She was right! Why IP law? I didn’t want my engineering background to pigeonhole me into IP, but… -
Creating a Culture of Encounter
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. First-of-its kind collaboration gains interest from around the country Catholic Studies launched a new collaboration – the first of its kind – with the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Office for the Mission of Catholic Education, to form Catholic educators in a deeper… -
Honoring the Communion of Saints With St. Paul Iconographer
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. As part of an ongoing commitment to amplify the rich cultural and racial diversity within the Catholic Church, the Murphy Institute initiated a collaboration with a local artist this spring to begin work on a series of icons that will be housed at the… -
Chasing Dreams, Promoting Dignity
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. A fashion designer. A postpartum doula. A therapist. At the surface, Catherine Huss '14, Lizzy Thibault '19 and Jake Voelker '08 don't seem to have much in common beyond their Catholic faith. Their fields are wildly diverse, but beneath the surface, these three Catholic… -
Undergraduate Reflection: What Did You Say to the Father?
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. There we were, shoulder to shoulder, squeezed into a small wooden pew in the Eucharistic adoration chapel. I spent a moment in prayer with Marely and Mariela, two Mexican-American girls I had been teaching the past couple months. Together we made the Sign of… -
‘On Eagle’s Wings’ Composer to Retire
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. World-renowned composer Father Michael Joncas ’75, artist-in-residence at St. Thomas, is retiring from full-time ministry effective Jan. 1, 2022. As he contemplated his upcoming retirement from active ministry, many fond memories arose. There was the time in 2003-04 when Joncas contracted Guillain-Barré syndrome, a… -
CSMA Master's Essay: American Religious Liberty and Catholic Perspectives
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. Throughout my time in the St. Thomas Law and Catholic Studies joint degree program, I became fascinated with issues at the intersection of faith and the law. I became especially aware of a cultural trend of growing disdain for Americans who hold to traditional… -
LOGOS Journal: Beauty, Order and the Moral Imagination
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. This quarter’s issue of LOGOS features a piece from Jared Zimmerer, widely known for his work with Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire. In this article, Zimmerer explores the wisdom of a 20th-century intellectual giant, Russell Kirk, on subjects of “Beauty, Order and the Moral… -
Social Work Alumni Help Older Adults Find Housing
Health & EducationONLINE MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE As the United States population ages, the need for skilled social workers is on the rise. When Annie Myers started an internship last year with Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, she quickly had to confront her biases. During her first month working with the organization’s Homeless Elders program, she heard…