For over thirty years, the National Federation of Catholic College Students (NFCCS), an affiliate of the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS-Pax Romana), offered students at U.S. Catholic colleges and universities both a vision of an active student apostolate and a vehicle for exercising apostolic agency. As an organization in the tradition of specialized Catholic Action, the NFCCS promoted activity by students in their own milieu. This included forming representative student governments, promoting social and interracial justice, developing national and international structures to address student concerns, and mobilizing over $500,000 to aid fellow students displaced by World War II. This article examines the federation’s work from its foundation in 1937 to 1950, the halfway point in its organizational life. Mid-century began a new chapter of mobilization, particularly as the student generation that the Second World War directly shaped completed their studies and their time with the organization.

Review of Daniel K. Finn, ed. _Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture

From August 27 to September 9, 1939 more than 400 delegates from thirty-eight countries gathered at The Catholic University of America and later at Fordham University for the eighteenth annual Pax Romana Congress. Upon hearing the news of Germany's invasion of Poland, the participants, including Polish and German students joined together in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, a gesture deeply symbolic of the mission of Pax Romana as an international student peace movement. Coming at the eve of the Second World War, the congress was a defining moment in the life of this global movement. Under the leadership of young American lay Catholics, the congress established a wartime office at The Catholic University of America, and mobilized American students into the National Federation of Catholic College Students and coordinated relief work for displaced students. Decades before social media and the World Youth Days, the 1939 congress and the wider Pax Romana network enabled students to build bridges and cross borders in meaningful ways just as a war was threating to break the world apart. This article explores the impact of this congress in developing a new vision for Pax Romana and its understanding of the church-world relationship in subsequent decades.

This essay examines the question “What is the proper role of the church and church organizations in regards to social justice?” It does so in light of the social justice legacy of Populorum Progressio and in three steps. Part I will consider the work of the Jesuit Refugee Service, a major Catholic organization that embodies Paul VI’s integral model in its work with forcibly displaced people around the world. Part II will then consider this experience considering the two major post-conciliar models of mission, starting with the integral framework presented in Populorum Progressio. Finally, this paper concludes by briefly examining the legacy of Paul’s integral model in the papacy of Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, who both develops and expands the model offered by Populorum Progressio.

A strategy for growing online biochemistry courses is presented based on successes in ecampus at Oregon State University. Four free drawing cards were key to the effort-YouTube videos, iTunes U online free course content, an Open Educational Resource textbook-Biochemistry Free and Easy, and a fun set of educational songs known as the Metabolic Melodies. © 2016 by The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 45(1):25-30, 2017.

(This song uses only the chorus of the original song) The citric acid cycle Is a source of energy It gets electrons moving While reducing NAD It starts with citric acid Turning to aconitate Which becomes an isocitrate Then to keto-glutarate The loss of one more carbon Gives succinyl-CoA And then succinic acid When the CoA goes away A further oxidation Gives one trans fumarate Which gains a water on the Next step to make malate One simple oxidation Makes O-A-A you see Which combined with Ac-Co-A Returns us cyclically Additional Supporting Information, including this song in MP3 format, may be found in the online version of this article. Supporting Information Audio. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.

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In beta oxidation, It just occurred to me The process all takes place between The carbons 2 and 3 Two hydrogens are first removed For FADH2 Then water adds across the bond, The H to carbon two Hydroxyl oxidation's next, Reducing NAD Then thiolase catalysis Dissects the last two C's The final products are, of course, All acetyl-CoAs Unless there were odd carbons, thence Propionyl-CoA For fatty acid synthesis One cycle's energy Takes NADPH times two Plus one lone ATP Each anabolic cycle starts With carbons one two three Yet products of reactions number carbons evenly The answer is that CO2 Plays peek-a-boo like games By linking to an Ac-CoA 1† Then popping off again The next three operations Change double bonds it's clear Reduction, dehydration and Then hydrogens appear The cycle after seven rounds Gives 16 carbon chains The links are saturated and No double bond remains For them desaturases toil Creating bonds of cis The animals get delta nine But no more go past this The synthesis of longer ones Eicosanoidic fun Is thanks to elongases in The e. reticulum

This item contains a video (.MP4) and a summary of highlights (.PDF) for Lecture 7 of Kevin Ahern's BB 350 (Elementary Biochemistry) class.