Creighton hosted its second Mission Week — a celebration of the University’s Jesuit, Catholic mission — in September. This year’s theme was “Expanding Our Circle of Compassion.”
Events included the traditional Mass of the Holy Spirit on Creighton’s Omaha campus and, for the first time, on the recently opened Phoenix campus. It also included the dedication of the St. Ignatius Chapel on the Phoenix campus.
Creighton’s Mission Week keynote address was presented by the Rev. Kevin FitzGerald, SJ, PhD, PhD, who presented in both Omaha and Phoenix. His talk, “Walking with the Excluded: The Significance of the Creighton Approach to Integrating the Humanities with Science and Health Care,” focused on the second of four Universal Apostolic Preferences animating the work of the Jesuits worldwide — Walking with the Excluded.
Fr. FitzGerald is an associate professor of medicine, chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and interim dean of the Graduate School. He also is the John A. Creighton University Professor and a nationally recognized molecular biologist and bioethicist.
