Arcadia

A Student Journal for Faith and Culture

"Et In Arcadia Ego"
Arcadia, A Student Journal for Faith and Culture, offers a vehicle were both undergraduate and graduates can contribute to the ongoing "dialogue between the Catholic Tradition and all areas of contemporary culture." A project of the Center for Catholic Studies, Arcadia is edited by students and faculty of Seton Hall University and is published annually.

If you would like a copy of Arcadia, please contact Gloria Garafulich-Grabois by e-mail at gloria.garafulich-grabois@shu.edu, or telephone at (973) 275-2431.

The Oxford Issue
The Oxford Summer Study Abroad Program
The Center for Catholic Studies and the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture sponsor a three credit course, The Foundations of Christian Culture, bi-annually at Oxford University. Students spend two weeks examining the origins of Christian culture in England through the disciplines of history, literature and philosophy, visiting sights of historic importance, and reading and reflecting upon the Christian life in a living and learning community in the heart of Oxford. The course is also supported by the Center for Vocation and Servant Leadership and the Father Walter Debold Scholarship Fund. For further information or to inquire about the Oxford 2011 Summer Study Abroad Program, please be in touch with Danute Nourse, by e-mail at danute.nourse@shu.edu or telephone at (973) 275-2525.

Arcadia, Vol. IV (2009)

Editorial Board:  Editor Gloria Garafulich-Grabois Managing Editor Elliot Guerra Associate Editors Alexander P. Grabois, James Harris

Editorial Assistant Andrea Aguirre Faculty Nancy Enright, Ph.D. Students Kaitlin Owens, Ysabella Esteban

Introduction to Arcadia, Vol. IV (2009)
In an essay which appeared in the journal Poetry, William Logan wrote, "time is the great magnifier of difference." How true that seems to me as I look out from my snowy office window and recall the courtyards of St. Hughs College, Oxford, the Oxford libraries and classrooms, and the warm glow of England pubs. There never seemed to be enough time to do all we wanted to do. Talking with students from across America we would plan evening trips to the theater. There were also Masses to attend, and polite arguments about "what was really going on in "Kant." In a place like Oxford, you can truly feel a sense of history: every brick, every stone seemed to call to you the faith of Newman, the longings of Hopkins. St. Augustine was right, when he wrote "memory leads to hope." 

In Oxford in 2005, Seton Hall University's Chesterton Institute and the Center for Catholic Studies gave me a beautiful gift. Not only were we blessed with wonderful lectures, tours and the opportunity to meet a Patriarch of the Eastern Church, but we were also able to tell Oxford that "we were here too." In Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Walt Whitman wrote of his beloved New York:

I loved well those cities;
I loved well the stately and rapid river;
The men and women I saw were all near to me;
Others the same – others who look back on me, because
             I look'd forward to them;

How right he seems to be, as I still catch myself daydreaming about Oxford. In some small way I shall always think of myself as being part of those English gardens and those Oxford courtyards, libraries and classrooms. "Time is the great magnifier." In some ways Oxford is more real to me in memory than it was at the time of my visiting. The love of friendship, the knowledge from learning is still with me and therefore more brilliant in the dark light of this evening than in the summer glow of England. It is my sincere hope and prayer that the reflections collected here will, for those who have been to Oxford, a reminder of quite reflections, warm pubs and talkative nights. And for those who hope to one day visit an incentive to follow up on their dream. Travel often, write well.

- Elliot Guerra
Managing Editor
Seton Hall University, '07

Arcadia, Vol. III (2008)

Editorial Board: Managing Editor Elliot Guerra Faculty Nancy Enright, Ph.D. Rev. Msgr. Richard Liddy, S.T.L., Ph.D. James McCartin, Ph.D. Student Era Murzaku Jackie Hobbs

 
Arcadia, Vol. II (2007)

Editorial Board: Managing Editor Elliot Guerra Faculty Nancy Enright, Ph.D. Rev. Msgr. Richard Liddy, S.T.L., Ph.D. James McCartin, Ph.D. Student Joseph W. McQuaide, IV Annalise Weindel

Arcadia, Vol. I (2006)

Editorial Board: Managing Editor & Elliot Guerra  Faculty Nancy Enright, Ph.D. Rev. Msgr. Richard Liddy, S.T.L., Ph.D. James McCartin, Ph.D. Student Meghan Conda Dorothy Krajewski Joseph W. McQuaide, IV