The year 2020 is etched into the collective memory of people across the United States. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and moments of racial reckoning across America, 2020 marked the beginning of a major cultural shift in the United States.During this time, Vincent Rougeau, current president of College of the Holy Cross, was serving as the dean of the Boston College Law School. In response to the events of 2020, he helped create and served as the inaugural director of BC’s Forum on Racial Justice in America, which provides space to discuss issues of race and racism.
Benjamin and Spagnola, two current UGBC members, are running for UGBC president and vice president on a platform emphasizing including students of all identities
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Do you recall this mantra for social action?
Sixty years ago, St. John XXIII, known as the “Good Pope John,” issued “Mater et Magistra” (“Mother and Teacher: On Christianity and Social Progress”), which addressed many of the social challenges facing the modern world.
His encyclical not only outlined these challenges but also offered principles rooted in the Gospel and Catholic social teaching for solving these problems, many of which still bedevil us today.
One passage has particular resonance. It suggests how we can confront social problems:
There are three stages which should normally be followed in the reduction of social principles into practice. First, one reviews the concrete situation; secondly, one forms a judgment on it in the light of these same principles; thirdly, one decides what in the circumstances can and should be done to implement these principles. These are the three stages that are usually expressed in the three terms: see, judge, act (No.
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