Rosehill – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu The official news site for Fordham University. Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:21:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://now.fordham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/favicon.png Rosehill – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu 32 32 232360065 COVID-19 Pause Lifted at Rose Hill Campus https://now.fordham.edu/campus-life/covid-19-pause-lifted-at-rose-hill-campus/ Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:46:12 +0000 https://news.fordham.sitecare.pro/?p=146254 Dear Members of the Fordham Community,

As of today, Sunday, February 28, we are lifting the pause of in-person instruction and activities at the Rose Hill campus (the Lincoln Center campus will continue to operate with COVID-19 precautions in place).

As I announced last week, Governor Cuomo announced changes in the rules governing Universities’ responses to positive COVID-19 tests on campus, making the threshold for pausing in-person instruction and activities less than “5% of the total on-campus population” testing positive over a 14-day period, provided that at least 25 percent of the on-campus population is tested each week. We are well above the 25 percent testing threshold.

We are able to resume normal operations as the University’s two-week average of COVID-19 infections is below the state threshold of 5 percent for pausing operations.

Chart of COVID-19 tests, positive cases and campus populations as of February 27, 2021

The following activities are affected at Rose Hill, subject to the same COVID-19 precautions that were in place prior to the pause, and which remain in place at the Lincoln Center campus:

  • In-person instruction will resume on Monday, March 1.
  • Ram Van service will resume on Monday, March 1, at 7 a.m.
  • In-person student activities will resume today.
  • Sunday Mass will resume in the University Church today with appropriate COVID-19 precautions.
  • Athletics practice and competition will resume today for all sports.
  • Ramfit at Rose Hill will open and operate on its normal schedule on Monday, March 1.
  • Indoor dining will commence at 35 percent of capacity today.

We continue to closely monitor the trend of new cases on campus, in consultation with New York City and state Departments of Health. The number of cases in the area adjacent to the Rose Hill campus remains concerning. I cannot stress strongly enough that our ability to offer in-person classes and activities is almost entirely dependent upon students especially observing strict COVID-19 precautions, including wearing a mask at all times on and off campus, maintaining social distancing, and washing hands frequently.

With your cooperation, the infection rate is low enough to allow us to resume in-person activity under the revised state guidelines. I thank you for your cooperation and hope you will continue to be mindful of COVID-19 precautions for the rest of the semester.

Sincerely,

Joseph M. McShane, S.J.

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Theologian Details How Catholic Church Might be Reformed Under New Pope https://now.fordham.edu/inside-fordham/theologian-details-how-catholic-church-might-be-reformed-under-new-pope/ Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:28:38 +0000 http://news.fordham.sitecare.pro/?p=28985 The election of Pope Francis last year represents an opportunity for the church to finally fulfill the goals of Vatican II and become a truly global church, a leading theologian told a group of religious leaders on Friday, March 14.

Massimo Fagfaggioligioli, Ph.D., assistant professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas, delivered Pope Francis and Vatican II: Past, Present, Future at Fordham’s Rose Hill Campus.

His talk was the keynote address ofFranciscans, Jesuits, and a New Pope: Medieval Lessons for Modern Reform, a two-day conference sponsored by the Graduate School of Religion and Religions Education (GRE) and Paulist Press.

To illustrate how Francis, who was elevated from cardinal and archbishop of Buenos Aires to the papacy on March 13, 2013, has the potential to institute real reform, Faggioli delved into history as far back as 1868, when Pope Pius IX convened the first Vatican Council.

Faggioli (who along with his wife, Sarah Christopher Faggioli, Ph.D., translated the Pope’s first interview with America Magazine) said that Pope Francis represents a new beginning for the church, as he “looks to the rest of the world with different eyes than those of an Italian, Polish, or German pope.”

This is key, he said, because the pontificates of the last 70 years have all been defined in different measures by historical-theological debates related to Vatican councils. From Pius XII’s failure to reconvene Vatican I, to Benedict XVI, who he called the most important theological “reviewer” of the council and its interpretations, the heads of the church have all been consumed by struggles of the different factions within it.

“Since he was ordained a priest in 1969, Pope Francis [halts]this line of popes who were biographically involved in Vatican II,” Faggioli said.

“The Argentine Jesuit Bergoglio perceives the Vatican as a matter that should not be reinterpreted, but implemented.”
During the pontificate of John Paul II, he noted, Vatican II became interpreted through a “political-cultural filter” that was broken down into four trends by Peter Steinfels, former co-director of Fordham’s Center for Religion and Culture, in his book A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America(New York, 2003).

– A tragic mistake or heresy
-A victim of erroneous and biased interpretations
-A necessary moment of change, reform, and reconciliation between the church and the modern world
-A betrayed revolution

These interpretations lead to the politicization of factions within the church that are consistent with cultures of the Western Hemisphere. Because Francis hails from outside these traditions, Faggioli said he has the potential to effect great change.

“The change of pontificate between Benedict XVI and Pope Francis means a change of paradigm in the way the church frames the idea of reform in connection with the different interpretations of Vatican II,” he said.

“Political-ideological interpretations of Vatican II will linger for sure, but the balance has shifted towards a more theological and less ideological debate.”

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