In a speech given to students at Loyola University of Chicago, Rev. David Hollenbach S.J., and professor of the theology department, pointed out perhaps the greatest obstacle for Catholic universities: balancing the desire to sustain and nurture the church's traditions while also embracing diversity and programs. Hollenbach argued that Catholic universities do not need to make an absolute choice between Catholic tradition or diversity, stating, "The Catholic university, above all, should be a place where professors and students bring their received historical traditions on the meaning of the good life into intelligent and critical encounter with understandings of this good held by other peoples with other traditions."

ON CAMPUS

BC grads collect books for distribution around the world
Just one year after graduating from Boston College, Phillip Titolo and Tim Nast are putting their alma mater's motto to good use. With a passion for reading and community service, Titolo and Nast recently founded Maplewood Books for Humanity, an organization aimed at teaching people to read in the world's poorest nations by providing resources and books. The two gather books from the Hartford, Conn., area, where they attend law school, and ship them out to international nonprofit organizations that send them to various English-speaking countries in Africa to boost education efforts. Since launching the organization this fall, they have sent over 400 books to Africa and hope to send over 1,000 by Christmas.

UNDER REPORTED

Pedophile does community service at a kindergarten
A convicted pedophile who was sentenced to community service at a German kindergarten will return to court next week after abusing two children there, a regional prosecutor's office said Thursday. The man, who is only identified as A.B., was sentenced to 720 hours of community service earlier this year after being caught working on the sly while collecting welfare payments. A.B. was allowed to work as a janitor at the St. Petri Evangelical Kindergarten in Melle, near the northern city of Osnabrueck. Alexander Retemeyer, the spokesman for the Osnabrueck prosecutor's office, said this was an oversight by a court worker who did not notice the three prior pedophilia convictions on the man's record.

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