"Charism" and Crisis
                                                        Homily at closing Eucharist

Fr. Jim Heft S.M.

"Years ago, when I was the provost at UD, a retired university administrator
told me that I should never let a crisis go to waste. Why? Because crises, he said,
“create new opportunities.” The crises we have been discussing at this meeting are
not only important, they are also difficult to address. What opportunities do they
create? Given that there are so many crises—environmental degradation, human
trafficking, racism, poverty, war, and the lack of respect for all living beings—to
name only a few, to how many of these should we respond? As members of
university communities, what competencies do we have to respond? In a world so
disfigured by greed, violence, egotism and war, what kind of difference, really, can
we make? " (read more)