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Fr. Downs served as Chaplain to the Motherhouse of the Villa Maria Community of Sisters from 1981 until 1995. During this time, he served as Chaplain to the high school students at Villa Maria High School. There, he was able to fulfill a life-long dream of acting in several musicals. He starred as Tevya in Fiddler on the Roof and as Mr. Bumble in... See more
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How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: https://t.co/xQ0fTmpVxb @Unibocconi https://t.co/dTjL9MLFr3
Remarkably, your intuition echoes the vision of Daniel Rudd, who founded the first National Black Catholic Congress in 1889. Rudd "demanded that white Catholics open the doors to Black Catholics, and he encouraged Black Catholics to seek the welcoming arms of the church." But he went further: "Rudd believed that Black Catholics, once nurtured in... See more
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Fr. Downs served as Chaplain at the Youth Development Center in New Castle, PA from 1979 until 1995. Along with Joan Aquino, Fr. Downs initiated a drug and alcohol recovery program for youth.
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Xavier, a Spanish monk, was one of the seven original Jesuits in the order founded by his friend Ignatius Loyola. Xavier died in 1552.
