Social Justice
This committee exists to provide opportunities for students and community members to experience and live out our Gospel call to “Love the Lord your God with of our heart, mind, and strength; and to love our neighbor as we love as we love ourselves”. God’s call to ‘loving justice for all’ is not simply about being a social activist. It’s a greater call to see and struggle to embody how God sees, respects, and responds to all people, and all that God has made. The Social Justice Committee invites us to prayerfully observe, reflect, and respond to the needs of God’s creation in the faces of the poor, the marginalized, hungry, and displaced. Through volunteer opportunities, talks, community projects, and faith sharing…, this committee seeks to invite our Newman Community into a conversation about how we can respond to Jesus call to greater love and stewardship of those “others” in our lives. To get involved, contact us at socialjustice@uacatholic.org
Thomas Ziccarelli
Heather Kwapiszeski
Brandon Good
Community Life
This committee exists to facilitate opportunities for students to grow in helpful social, interpersonal, and spiritual connections with one another and the Newman Center Community. College can be both an exciting and challenging experience for students as they move into this new chapter of their young adult maturing journey. Newman Centers provide a safe and welcoming environment for Catholic Students and their friends to celebrate faith and life. To get involved, contact us at communitylife@uacatholic.org
Thomas Ziccarelli
Heather Kwapiszeski
Brandon Good
Faith Formation
This committee exists to facilitate active growth and development of the Spiritual Lives of Students. People are in such different places with respect to their Faith Development. Some are well read on the teachings of the Church, the practice of Catholic devotions, and a variety of external Catholic practices. Others are not so educated or practiced in these things but are more focused on “doing good things” for others. These are those who volunteer and serve with great conviction. They are not so concerned with the externals of the Faith but living it out. Students can fall in the extremes of these, as well, as be any combination of the two. Faith Formation provides wonderful Catholic opportunities for learning, exploring, deepening, experiencing, and sharing the gift of faith that we have received. College classes and life can be challenging, and often raise many questions for students. Newman provides a place to be able to question and doubt respectfully and responsibility, and to move towards truth in a healthy and responsible way. To get involved, contact us at faithformation@uacatholic.org
Thomas Ziccarelli
Heather Kwapiszeski