NEWS AND EVENTS

  • Rooted Hearts: Discovering Your Family’s and Neighbor’s Roots Every student, faculty, and staff member at Villanova has a migration history. Rooted Hearts invites students, faculty, and staff to discover theirs — and in doing so, to build empathy, solidarity, and community with each other, and with migrants and refugees in the Greater Philadelphia region, nation, and across the world today.
  • Mission Week: Honoring Augustine and Mother Cabrini Sponsored by the Office of Mission and Ministry, the Mother Cabrini Institute on Immigration, and the Augustinian Institute, this celebration November 9 - 13 will raise consciousness about the founding spirit of Villanova, linking together the lives and ministries of these two great saints.
  • Canary Islands Immigration Symposium Aligns with Pope Leo Visit The Mother Cabrini Institute on Immigration at Villanova University sponsored a symposium, united to and in solidarity with the focus of the Pope’s visit to the Canary Islands, to continue its initiative of promoting a “global constellation of universities” (in the words of Pope Leo), to lead teaching and research to address critical challenges faced by the world’s migrants and refugees.
  • Corpus Christi Procession of Solidarity Villanova University’s Center for the Common Good and the Mother Cabrini Institute on Immigration walked and prayed in solidarity with the immigrant families during the Feast of Corpus Christi procession in Philadelphia.
  • Building Bridges: Dialogue in an Age of Polarization The Mother Cabrini Institute on Immigration, the Dr. Terry Nance Center for Dialogue, and the Office of Resident Life are sponsoring a series of “dialogues” around the issue of immigration in our country. This program will be initiated in three student residences on the Cabrini Campus and is directed towards Villanova sophomore students residing there. The dates for the first round of the dialogues are: Monday, September 21, Tuesday, September 22 and Wednesday, September 23, each at 7 p.m.

The Mother Cabrini Institute on Immigration
Villanova University
610 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087