{"id":37457,"date":"2021-03-03T02:03:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/?p=37457"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:05:13","slug":"st-katharine-drexel-and-desales-hospitality-core-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/2021\/03\/03\/st-katharine-drexel-and-desales-hospitality-core-value\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Katharine Drexel and DeSales Hospitality Core Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the church celebrates the feast of St. Katharine Drexel, the heir of the vast Drexel Family wealth from Philadelphia.\u00a0 March is also Women\u2019s History Month.\u00a0 In this excerpt from the writings of Kathy Coffey\u2019s <em>Women of Mercy <\/em>(Orbis, 2005 p, 111-112), we see the deep commitment of Katharine to care for Black and Native American peoples, despite great resistance.\u00a0 St. Katharine\u2019s zeal for inclusion and equity, generations before it became the norm, is a clear expression of our University core value of hospitality.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The situation for African-Americans in the early 1900s hadn\u2019t changed much since the days of slavery.\u00a0 Although Black people were eager for freedom, they had little education and found few jobs.\u00a0 \u201cNothing is too good for my students!\u201d vowed Katharine, who saw an education permeated with Christian principles as vital equipment.\u00a0 Starting schools for Black girls, she incurred the wrath of the Ku Klux Klan.\u00a0 They burned a cross on her front lawn in 1926 and called her community \u201cn***** sisters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Despite the racists who targeted her, Katharine continued to buy property and insisted that African-Americans should have not only trade schools but academic colleges.\u00a0 But even her abundant charm couldn\u2019t convince homeowners righteously defending their neighborhoods.\u00a0 Unfazed, she contributed $750,000 toward the founding of Xavier University in New Orleans, the first Catholic college in the United States for African-Americans.\u00a0 She explained her independence: \u201cYou have no time to occupy your thoughts with\u2026 consideration of what others will think.\u00a0 Your business is simply, \u2018What will my Father in heaven think?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the church celebrates the feast of St. Katharine Drexel, the heir of the vast Drexel Family wealth from Philadelphia.\u00a0 March is also Women\u2019s History Month.\u00a0 In this excerpt from the writings of Kathy Coffey\u2019s Women of Mercy (Orbis, 2005 p, 111-112), we see the deep commitment of Katharine to care for Black and Native American peoples, despite great resistance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/2021\/03\/03\/st-katharine-drexel-and-desales-hospitality-core-value\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,14,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-faculty","category-salesian","category-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37458,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37457\/revisions\/37458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}