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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF MANHATTAN COLLEGE | SINCE 1924
Volume CIX, Issue 6
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 27, 2024
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Martha Hennessey Visit The Grand Opening of The Dorothy Day Center Mary Haley
Grand Opening of Dorothy Day Center
Martha Hennessy, Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan both came to Kelly Commons to celebrate the grand opening of the Dorothy Day Center for the Study and Promotion of Social Catholicism. MARY HALEY/ THE QUADRANGLE
Don Gibson to Step Down as Dean of O’Malley School of Business
Manhattan College further reaffirmed the legacy of Dorothy Day through the grand opening of the Dorothy Day Center for the Study and Promotion of Social Catholicism, which included a blessing from the archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan. The college welcomed His Eminence, Timothy Dolan, for a prayer ceremony in the room dedicated to Dorothy Day and her mission of social action in the Social Action Suite. Dorothy Day was a social activist, journalist and a co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement founded in 1933, along with Peter Maurin. The organization has expanded and still strives for peace in its efforts to speak up for the poor through charity work and demonstrations for justice. The movement started with a newspaper, titled “Catholic Worker”, that Day herself would work on, which connected Catholic social teaching to society and the outreach that could be done to promote peace and justice in society. Although Day was neither born nor raised Catholic, she converted to Catholicism after having a spiritual awakening. She is now being considered for canonization of sainthood through the efforts of the Dorothy Day Guild and its co-chair Deirdre Cornell and Ignatian volunteer Jodee Fink. “What I’ve been working on with another volunteer is keeping track of people who
Don Gibson will be leaving the college after serving as Dean of the O’Malley School of Business since 2018. Gibson will remain in the position until the end of this semester before taking on a new role as Dean of Business and Economics at Saint Mary’s College in his home state of California. Gibson explained that his decision to leave the college was largely due to personal reasons and a desire to seek new professional opportunities. “The Dean role is very busy,” he said in an interview with The Quadrangle. “I
thought about what’s called ‘stepping down’ and becoming a faculty member. But I explored some opportunities in terms of being a Dean and decided to continue in that role. I think it’s a good chance for the school to develop some new leadership. Then for personal reasons - I grew up in California and had a desire to return.” Gibson also noted that his decision to leave has nothing to do with current difficulties the college is facing. “I had planned to step down during this timeframe for the last couple of years,” Gibson said. “It [the decision to leave] was not in response, in particular to what’s going on in the college. Now, I think the college
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is going to work through some very difficult times that are confronting all of higher education. But I think the leadership has made the right moves to address the situation. So this has been part of my plan. I think the school is very strong, and we’ll continue on the trajectory that we’ve been working on.” The search for a new Dean will be initiated by interim Provost Rani Roy. No information on a search committee for the new Dean has been shared at this time. During his time serving as Dean, Gibson has made a number of significant contributions to the O’Malley School of Busi __________________________
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report either a special grace, or a favor, or even approaching a miracle because they pray to Dorothy Day,” Fink said. “A lot of people have very profound experiences after they prayed for her, but we haven’t really found anything yet that fits all the criteria for a miracle that we can send to the people in Rome [the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints] who are moving her case along.” In order to be considered for sainthood, there are three main stages one must pass through: the deceased must be deemed “venerable,” “blessed” and finally “saint.” According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), “venerable” is given to an individual who is “recognized formally by the pope as having lived a heroically virtuous life or offered their life.” The individual then advances to “blessed,” meaning they are “beatified and accorded limited liturgical veneration.” The title of “saint” is given when they have “been formally canonized by the Church as sharing eternal life with God, and therefore offered for public veneration and imitation.” Deirdre Cornell was raised by Catholic worker parents in New York City, where she knew Day personally until her death in 1980. Cornell explained to The Quadrangle that during the COVID-19 pandemic, while working with her husband to help undocumented people and farmers she felt called to revisit the original vision of Day: to
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