Center for Catholic Faith and Culture

Our priorities are to foster substantive scholarly engagement with Catholic ideas and ideals at Duquesne, impact scholarship and problem-solving beyond Duquesne and nurture an educational community characterized by the Spiritan charism.

1. Contribute to Duquesne University's Catholic and Spiritan mission and to facilitate institutional culture and practice consonant with our mission and identity.
2. Increase DU faculty and student awareness of Catholic ideas and ideals by utilizing diverse forms of faculty support and create new opportunities to broaden and deepen faculty engagement with the Center.
3. Produce scholarship that contributes to Catholic intellectual life by sponsoring research, publications, dialogue, and problem-solving.
4. Promote the reputation of the Center for Catholic Faith and Culture by communicating and amplifying our mission and our core values.
5. Seek external funding for innovative programs and initiatives.

We will rely on quantitative and qualitative evidence for assessment.

The project, Catholicism and the Common Good, was hosted by the Center for Catholic Faith and Culture at Duquesne University, and generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. The multi-year project (2017-2021) fostered original scholarship on issues that are vital to our mutual wellbeing, forged collaborative networks across public and private stakeholders, and imagined the future of Catholic higher education. The project's mission connected scholars, religious leaders, and the public to work together for the common good. We uplifted Catholic ideals to inform fresh scholarship to address contemporary social problems and developed new practices in higher education.

Catholicism and the Common Good aimed to foster innovative scholarship as well as practices of public engagement. The goals were:

• to understand and address issues that are important for the common good;
• to foster collaborative networks across institutions, academic disciplines, and faith traditions;
• to develop better ways for connecting scholarship to the variety of stakeholders it is meant to serve.

Congratulations Common Good Research Award Winners

A New Directive: An Ethical Analysis of the Ethical and Religious Directives and Catholic Healthcare Mission to Promote and Sustain Catholic Healthcare
Noah Dimas
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts | Center for Global Health Ethics
Faculty Advisor: Gerard Magill, Ph.D. 

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How does the Harry Potter series connect to Plato's belief in the immortality of the soul and finitude of the body?
Julia Strimling
Nursing | McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts | Freshman
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Scheid, Ph.D
Abstract: 49

The project, Catholicism and the Common Good, was hosted by the Center for Catholic Faith and Culture at Duquesne University, and generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. The multi-year project (2017-2021) fostered original scholarship on issues that are vital to our mutual wellbeing, forged collaborative networks across public and private stakeholders, and imagined the future of Catholic higher education. The project's mission connected scholars, religious leaders, and the public to work together for the common good. We uplifted Catholic ideals to inform fresh scholarship to address contemporary social problems and developed new practices in higher education.

Reflecting the Catholic, Spiritan mission and identity of Duquesne University, the Paluse Faculty Research Grant is an important university-wide internal funding opportunity intended to support full-time faculty scholarly research. 

Grant awards are for up to $6,000. Up to two awards will be granted.

• Open to all full-time Duquesne faculty in any academic discipline with continuing full-time faculty appointments.
• Intended to lead, at least, to publication in a reputable peer-reviewed journal.
• Can be used to support a portion of a multi-phase research project, provided the project funded by the Paluse grant is clearly defined and the proposal makes a strong case for the likelihood of future external funding and publication.
• Faculty are encouraged to pursue collaborative and cross-disciplinary research projects and to submit them for Paluse funding.
• Recipients may teach no more than one summer course for supplementary pay during the summer they hold the grant.
• Previous winners of Paluse Faculty Research Grants are welcome to apply. Proposals must demonstrate research outcomes from previous grants, and applications must show that the current proposal focuses on a new research project.
• Preference will be given to applicants who have not received a Paluse Faculty Research Grant in the last two years.

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