Sarah Signorino, associate campus minister (front row left) and Joe Van Volkenburg, assistant to the director of campus ministry (front row right) led 20 Canisius delegates to Washington, D.C., for the 17th annual Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice (IFTJ).
More than 20 Canisius College delegates joined 1,300 social justice advocates affiliated with Jesuit universities, high schools, parishes and the larger Catholic Church at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice (IFTJ), from November 15-17 in Washington, D.C. The group was led by Sarah Signorino, associate campus minister and Joe Van Volkenburg, assistant to the director of campus ministry. The 17th annual Teach-In coincided with the 25th anniversary of the murders of six Jesuit priests and two laywomen, killed in El Salvador on November 16, 1989, by Salvadoran military for their defense of the economically poor.
The IFTJ is a nationwide social justice conference sponsored by the Ignatian Solidarity Network, a national lay-led, faith-based, social justice organization that works to mobilize Jesuit universities, high schools, parishes, and ministries and the larger church throughout the United States in order to effect positive social change on critical issues facing the world. Teach-In attendees represent over 80 Catholic institutions in 25 states, Canada, and Mexico.
Earlier this month, Canisius held a Remembrance Mass for the Jesuit Martyrs in Christ the King Chapel. Students and staff who will participate in the Ignatian Family Teach-in and others, took part in a remembrance procession during the evening liturgy.
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