CSJ Center for Reconciliation and Justice
The CSJ Center serves faculty, staff, students and alumni by offering a forum for dialogue, a place of education, and a resource for reflective action. The center aims to be an interdisciplinary and interfaith space that supports the University community's work for reconciliation and justice in Los Angeles and beyond.
Coming Up
The Dignity of Women: Roles and Challenges
On April 6, a panel of Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim women who will reflect on the role of women in their tradition at the annual LMU Interfaith Forum
Pam Rector Center Service Awards
The Pam Rector Center for Service and Action is excited to celebrate the contributions of LMU students to the community in service and advocacy on May 2
Commencement 2025
LMU’s 113th Commencement Weekend will take place on the LMU Westchester Campus on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18
Hidden Heroes Recognition Awards and Dramatized Narratives Performance
The CSJ Center will honor members of the LMU community through the telling of their story in a dramatic narrative at this October 26 performance
Highlights
Thomas Poon, Ph.D. named as 17th President of LMU
Leaders of LMU’s sponsoring religious orders, including Sean Carroll, S.J., Mary Genino, R.S.H.M., and Mary Beth Ingham, C.S.J. express their full confidence in President-elect Poon’s leadership and fidelity to LMU’s Catholic values in the traditions of their congregations
Remembering the Sisters' arrival in the United States
Sisters of St. Joseph came from France to the United States in 1836 in response to a request from Bishop Joseph Rosati to open a school for the deaf in St. Louis. We celebrate the anniversary of their American arrival on March 25.
'Trapped in Paradise' reprinted with debut of new documentary
Four Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange were trapped behind enemy lines in the North Solomon Islands at the height of World War II. Trapped in Paradise, namesake of both the book and a new documentary, recounts that experience
Protecting the Planet
Andrea Payre Madrigal ’25 sees the whole planet as her home. “I feel very protective of the planet and very protective of the different cultures I know, the different places that have taken me in, the different places that have raised me,” she said.
