the current

Our Monthly Newsletter About the Institute

The institute publishes a monthly newsletter, The Current, with the latest stories of the institute’s work, profiles of faculty and student researchers, photography from recent events, and announcements about upcoming events. To receive The Current in your inbox, subscribe here. For past issues of The Current, see the list below.

Latest Issue: October 2026

The October 2026 issue of The Current spotlights a new Pokagon mural, the first faith-based Integrating Virtue Together workshop, and the 2026–27 Postbaccalaureate Research Fellow, Leah Perila. Read more.

2026

  • September. New postdoctoral fellow Fr. Emmanuel Ojeifo, student summer research awards, reading group on papal encyclical and AI
  • August. New faculty member Kevin Hargaden, South Bend mural, pilot fellowship for South Bend youth
  • July. Undergraduate student summer research
  • June. Senior Send-off, Virtues & Vocations Conference, practitioner in residence Monalisa’s research
  • May. NEA grant-funded printmaking collaboration, record-breaking numbers for summer programming, and Claudia Rowe
  • April. Proximities seminar at the border, Ryan Juskus’s research, new books in Enacting CST series.
  • March. CST community workshops, Andy Hoffman’s Management as a Calling, and JPW Lecture by Ayana Mathis
  • February. McNeill Winter Plunge, Joachim Ozonze’s research on healing justice, and on-campus reentry simulation
  • January. Justice & Society Minor, Megan Levis Scheier, and creative writing workshops in county jail

2025

  • December. Appalachia seminar and Higher Education and the Common Good Summit
  • November. Dismas Hub mural, Dr. Tom Catena, and Graduate Institute
  • October. Summer research, postbaccalaureate fellows, Engage South Bend tour
  • September. Luke Bretherton, Kyla Walker, RISE Hometown
  • August. Collaboratory, new scholars, Marianne Cusato
  • July. Summer of Social Concerns
  • June. Senior Send-off, Virtues & Vocations conference, La Casa printmaking
  • May. Pope Francis, Reentry, Encounter Series
  • April. Proximities, Samantha Deane, CST Conference
  • March. Fr. Yuriy Shchurko, Crime and Justice Working Group, McNeill Fellows
  • February. Suzanne Mulligan, Building Services Mural, SB: Questions of Justice
  • January. Proximities, Integrating Virtue Together, ND Magazine

2024

  • December. A Proximate View of Poverty by Connie Snyder Mick
  • November. Monalisa, minors
  • October. Bryan Stevenson, Catholic Higher Education in Prison, Roy Scranton
  • September. Ryan Juskus, Virtue in Virtual Spaces, Research for the Common Good
  • August. New faculty, community partners
  • July. Summer Programs
  • June. V&V Conference, Clemente Graduates, Summer Research
  • May. Dan Graff at Vatican, Art and Justice, 2024 Senior Send-Off
  • April. Helal Khan, Integrating Virtue Together, Racial Justice in America
  • March. Katie Comeau, NDBridge and Summer Fellowships, Solidarity and the City
  • February. Walter Scheirer, Arts of Dignity, Regina Williams-Preston
  • January. Current events