Selected Speeches
Educating for diversity
I welcome the invitation to speak to you today and I envy you the challenge of launching a program of education for interreligious dialogue at the beginning of the 21st century. Read full text
Jesuit Traditions of Georgetown
I'm delighted to be able to add my welcome to the many that you have already received this weekend. Greeting you, our new first-year students, as we begin the 2002-2003 academic year is a happy moment for me. Read full text
Equilibrium and Engagement
Delivering an oration at a Phi Beta Kappa gathering is an honorable and awesome task. Preparing to discharge this grave responsibility, I found myself reverting to type. Read full text
Creating Your Georgetown Geography
As we initiate the 2003-2004 academic year, I welcome our first-year students to the College. This summer, as I began to think about your first days and months here at Georgetown, the words 'space' and 'geography' kept coming to mind. Read full text
A Summation and A Sending Forth
What a privilege it is to address you today at Georgetown University's Senior Convocation and to offer a brief response to three wonderful student speeches. Read full text
Welcoming the New Religious America
I feel so honored to be with you at Simpson College today and grateful to President Kevin LaGree for the invitation to address you on one of the most memorable days of your lives. Read full text
Reading the Qur'an with Fidelity and Freedom
Within a few months our colleges and universities will graduate the first class of students to have lived their entire undergraduate experience under the shadow of September 11th. Read full text
Introducing the Americas Initiative
Welcome to our Georgetown College Faculty Convocation. At our convocation last year, I spoke about the future of the College and what I viewed as its most pressing needs and most attractive ambitions. Read full text
Davis Center Dedication
Since Georgetown's early years the performing arts have flourished--fueled by the passion of our students and faculty. While the performing arts were always at home at Georgetown, they never had a real home--until today. Read full text
Fostering Global Religious Literacy
As a host of the 2006 Sant'Egidio International Prayer for Peace, I welcome this opportunity to speak about Georgetown University's integrated approach to our topic, Living Together in a Globalized World: The Role of Religions. Read full text
