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Wills Rooney is a 2016 graduate of Duke University, where he was a student director of the Duke Catholic Center and a member of the varsity cross-country and track teams. Wills authored a biweekly column, “Imago Dei” for Duke’s independent daily newspaper, The Chronicle, in which he addressed cultural and campus issues through a Catholic lens. Wills was awarded a George J. Mitchell Scholarship to study at Maynooth University, Ireland, where he will begin a graduate program in the Philosophy of Religion in September 2016.
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World Youth Day: A witness to the joy of the Church

August 31, 2016 Wills Rooney 0

“A pilgrimage is for transformation.” Those words, gleaned from a pilgrim manual I received from my college spiritual director, capture the essence of my journey to Krakow, Poland for World Youth Day. Nearly a month […]

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Today President Barack Obama and Pope Francis met for the first time, in an encounter at the Vatican that included a one-on-one conversation running nearly an hour. The Vatican released the following statement after the […]

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