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• October 14: Download WSJ rankings graphics for Outlook email signature

  Tuesday October 14, 2025
  

  Titans, the University recently earned No. 36 in the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse rankings for ‘America’s Best Colleges’ in 2026.

  Show your Titan pride of the high national rankings by downloading the images below and including them in your email signature. To add:

  • Download by right-clicking or control-click and save the images below;
  • Click the settings ‘sprocket’ icon up in the top right corner of Microsoft Outlook;
  • Click on Account, and then Signature;
  • Paste the graphic or select the picture icon and upload into your signature;
  • Adjust sizing, and then hit save at the bottom.

  

  

• October 14: Mass of Remembrance set for Sunday, Nov. 2

  Tuesday October 14, 2025
  

  During the month of November, the Catholic Church remembers family and friends who have died. The month highlights this tradition with two feast days, All Saints Day and All Souls Day during the first two days of November.

  Detroit Mercy joins this celebration with an annual听Mass of Remembrance on the first Sunday of November 鈥� November 2 at 4 p.m. in the St. Ignatius Chapel on the McNichols Campus.

  All are welcome to join us as we remember all those who have gone before us and remain in our hearts.

  Please complete the registration form below to have your loved one’s name added to the list and to RSVP.

  Register for Mass of Remembrance.

• October 14: Associates of Sisters of Mercy to share efforts to support Honduran women, Oct. 27

  Tuesday October 14, 2025
  

  All are welcome to an evening in support of Honduran women at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27 in the Health Professions Facility (CHP), Room 124, on the McNichols Campus.

  Speakers will share news on a project to address women鈥檚 needs–the purchase and renovation of a new headquarters in San Pedro Sula, which will expand the capacity of Foro de Mujeres (The Women鈥檚 Forum).

  Many Honduran women dream of staying in their home country, but the recurring threats of domestic violence and femicide often force them to flee. Foro de Mujeres is group of women who have come together to change that narrative by creating a community of mutual support, safety and solidarity.

  The organization was founded by the Associates of the Sisters of Mercy, who 鈥渞espond to the Gospel call to holiness by engaging in the spiritual and corporal works of Mercy, deepening their spirituality, partnering in prayer and action with the sisters and responding in their own personal lives to the critical needs of our time–care of Earth, anti-racism advocacy, justice for women, justice for immigrants and nonviolence.鈥�

  At the event, you鈥檒l enjoy authentic Honduran snacks and drinks and have the opportunity to support this important work through donations and by purchasing handicrafts made by women in the Honduran community.

  This event is co-sponsored by Detroit Mercy鈥檚 Titan Dreamers and Women鈥檚 & Gender Studies.

• October 13: Join the daily Ignatius Loyola鈥檚 Spiritual Exercises

  Monday October 13, 2025
  

  Director of the Catholic Studies Program Si Hendry, S.J., will lead a group of faculty, staff and administrators through Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises integrated into everyday life.

  This is an excellent opportunity to deepen your prayer life and relationship with God and to get to know 鈥� on an experiential level 鈥� the spirituality behind the Jesuit sponsorship of 麻豆APP. It will involve praying every day guided by Ignatius鈥� Spiritual Exercises, reflecting on your prayer and other experiences, meeting with a group once a week and meeting with a spiritual director every week or two.

  This opportunity will run from late October through the middle of May. It is a serious commitment, but well worth it.

  If you are interested or want more information, please contact Fr. Hendry at hendrysi@udmercy.edu to arrange an interview to see if this would be appropriate for you.

• October 13: Feminist Scholarship Colloquium set for Oct. 21

  Monday October 13, 2025
  

  The Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program will host the annual Feminist Scholarship Colloquium on Tuesday, Oct. 21 from 3:30-5 p.m. in the William C. Young Boardroom, located on the second floor of the Student Union. All are welcome.

  Presenters will share the diverse ways that sex, gender, sexuality and related issues inform their research and teaching.

  Presenters from across the University will include:

  • Ceara O’Leary, professor of practice of Architecture
  • Julia Belian, associate professor, School of Law
  • Lee Eshelman, associate professor of Psychology
  • Maha Ahmad, associate professor, School of Dentistry

  Refreshments will be provided.

  

• October 13: 26th annual McElroy Lecture on Law and Religion set for Oct. 23

  Monday October 13, 2025
  

  The McElroy Lecture on Law and Religion provides a forum for prominent thinkers to address fundamental issues of law and religion. The 26th annual lecture is set for Thursday, Oct. 23, from 5-6 p.m. in Room 226 of the Riverfront Campus. A reception follows the lecture in the atrium.

  This year鈥檚 lecture, titled 鈥淣ext Steps for Church Autonomy,鈥� will be presented by Stephanie Barclay, professor of law at Georgetown University Law School and faculty co-director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. The annual McElroy Lecture is made possible through a bequest from Detroit Mercy Law alumnus Philip J. McElroy.

  This lecture will examine emerging frontiers in church autonomy jurisprudence across several critical contexts:

  • the doctrine’s application as a defense to defamation suits arising from religious discipline
  • tensions between ministerial exception principles and employment protections
  • the use of collateral appeals to prevent process as punishment in autonomy disputes
  • proper judicial deference to internal religious governance.

  The lecture explores potential doctrinal developments that would be important to both religious liberty and individual rights while avoiding the constitutional hazards of excessive entanglement with religious affairs.

  Barclay’s research focuses on the role our different democratic institutions play in protecting minority rights, particularly at the intersection of free speech and religious exercise. Her work is published or is forthcoming in leading journals such as the Harvard Law Review, the Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review听and the Yale Law Journal Forum.听Barclay is a faculty affiliate at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a Nootbaar Fellow at the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics at Pepperdine University.

  

• October 13: Detroit Mercy Law to hold special Law Review Symposium, Nov. 10

  Monday October 13, 2025
  

  will host a special Law Review symposium, titled “Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Exploring the Legal Issues Surrounding Deadly Shipwrecks and Honoring the 50th Anniversary of a Great Lakes Tragedy,” on Monday, Nov. 10, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

  The symposium will take place in Room 226 of Detroit Mercy’s Riverfront Campus, 651 E. Jefferson Avenue in Detroit.

  Two panel discussions will be held, one on property law and the other on constitutional and state law. A Eucharistic service will follow the discussions at Mariners’ Church of Detroit with special prayers for the 29 souls lost and ringing of the bell 29 times, once again, in their memory. Dan Hall, a professional musician, will cover The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald at the end of the service. He will also perform an original song before the service about the Edmund Fitzgerald.

  Lunch and reception will be provided in Detroit Mercy Law Atrium.