“We don’t ‘tolerate’diversity, we activelyrespect and love people,” said Phil Florio, S.J., assistant vice president for campus ministry. “That’s the meaning of Christian community.”
This was no homily delivered at Sunday night Mass. Father Florio was speaking of the University’s response to several recent bias-related incidents on both the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses in which racial and homophobic slurs were written in public spaces and, in one case, on the door of a student’s room in a residence hall.
