In Eucharist, ‘we’re one with God, one with each other,’ says Catholic musician Matt MaherIn 1964, when Pope Paul VI made his historic pilgrimage to the Holy Land – the first by a Pope since ancient times – he expressed a desire to do something to help the Palestinian people.
Its Vice-President for Advancement, Br Jack Curran, FSC, is currently in Rome, for a meeting of aid agencies serving the Eastern Catholic Churches. To arrive in Bethlehem from Jerusalem, where forty percent of BU students live, Br Jack noted – a journey of just eight kilometers – was “impossible for five months.”Br Curran said that this situation had forced faculty and staff at Bethlehem University to “find new ways to engage the students.”
Sometimes, he noted, this is quite difficult: “the intensity of the psychological pressure on our students and on our faculty is a great concern.”