YEAR IN REVIEW
FROM THE DIRECTOR
“How do you ever know for certain you are doing the right thing?”
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014)
Each summer the new McNeill Justice Fellows read Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. Doerr’s exquisite novel is the World War II story of a blind French girl and her unlikely friendship with a young German soldier. Like many novels depicting this era, it is a tale of unrelenting horror. But it is also a story of hope, small mercies, and glimpses of deep humanity (or “light”) only made visible through a relationship of encounter.
Justice Up Close
Collaborating on Research, Discovering Community Solutions
Finding Scholarly Purpose in Justice
Cultivating Character
SPIRE: SCHOLARSHIP IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL TRADITION
Addressing the Signs of the Times
Perspectives
What Does the Institute For Social Concerns Mean to You?
Junior Neuroscience and Behavior Major
Professor of the Practice
Graduate Justice Fellow
Professor of the Practice
Director for Assessment and Engaged Scholarship
HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER AS PRACTITIONER-IN-RESIDENCE
Ending Human Trafficking
From Incarceration to Transformation
Finding Scholarly Purpose in Justice
CATALYZING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Toward a Thriving South Bend
SETTING THE STANDARD FOR SUMMER
Student Research for the Common Good
SIGNATURE LECTURES AT THE INSTITUTE
Speaking of Proximity
Our North Star of Encounter
As we celebrate the Jubilee Year of Hope proclaimed by Pope Francis, we mourn his loss, while embracing the new leadership of Pope Leo XIV. Since its founding in 1983, the Institute has anchored its work in the enduring principles of Catholic social tradition, drawing deeply from the treasury of social encyclicals stretching from Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 Rerum novarum that addresses the conditions of the working class during the Industrial Revolution to Pope Francis’s 2020 Fratelli tutti that addresses the fragmentation of society during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the Institute for Social Concerns
