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May 16, 2021

Social justice at the core of new Brescia president

Lauretta Frederking, right, Brescia’s principal and new president, chats with a student.

The new president of Brescia University College is a political scientist who wants to liberate social justice from politics and an educator who wants to free teaching from the classroom. Lauretta Conklin Frederking has been named the 13th principal and the new president of Canada’s only Catholic women’s college. The London, Ont., college was founded by the Ursuline Sisters in 1919. Its 1,500 students also attend Western University.

Published in Education
October 21, 2020

Gift to Brescia will develop women leaders

Lauretta Frederking, right, Brescia’s vice-principal and academic dean, chats with a student.

A $200,000 gift from the RBC Foundation’s Future Launch program will help enhance leadership opportunities for the women at Canada’s only women’s university.

Published in Higher Education
December 2, 2015

Potential terrorists threatened Pope, say police in Italy, Kosovo

Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Dec. 2

BRESCIA, Italy - Italian State Police in Brescia, working with their counterparts in Kosovo, announced Dec. 1 that they had taken action against four Kosovars they believed to be terrorist risks and who, police said, made threats on social media against Pope Francis.

Published in International
October 13, 2014

Paul VI beatification highlights dialogue, Vatican II, love for Church

Pope Paul VI greets the crowd as he visits the parish of Jesus the Divine Master in Rome April 2, 1972. Pope Francis will beatify Pope Paul Oct. 19 during the closing Mass of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family.

VATICAN CITY - Meeting Catholics from Pope Paul VI's home diocese, Brescia, Pope Francis said his predecessor's witness "nourishes within us the flame of love for Christ, love for the Church and the drive to proclaim the Gospel to the people of today with mercy, patience, courage and joy."

Published in Vatican