University of Portland Performing & Fine Arts faculty & student performances responding to themes of conflict, displacement, immigration and equality. A collaboration with the Dundon-Berchtold Institute and the Garaventa Center.

From the Cross, our Lord, in his pain, was able to make excuses for those, including ourselves, who are implicated in his suffering, surely, we must do the same for those who have offended us.

When faith gives us strength to endure our griefs and disappointments, like Martha and Mary, we find that God had something better in store for us all along. 

University of Notre Dame Professor of German and Philosophy Mark Roche interlaces humor with an analysis of the greatness and limits of Freud's theory of jokes, 3/23/17. A collaboration by the Garaventa Center, the Notre Dame Club of Portland, and the Beckman Humor Project.

Laetare Sunday, halfway through Lent, is a perfect time to answer the questions "Who is Jesus Christ to me, and what do I plan to do about that?"

As we make our way through Lent, perhaps these readings about living water will crack open our stony hearts and let the grace come gushing in.

Fordham University Distinguished Professor of Theology Elizabeth Johnson presents the challenge of how loving the Earth and its species as a neighbor must become an intrinsic part of faith in God, 3/7/17. Hosted by the Garaventa Center.

The transfigured Christ invites the very wounded, lost among us to "rise, and do not be afraid."

Jesus faces down the same temptation as Eve, with a startlingly different outcome.

Today's readings underscore that in faith and love, we can know things that may not seem so obvious when we weigh the evidence.