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Congratulations Class of 2012!

Welcome to The Catholic University of America’s Commencement Web site. These pages provide a basic overview of Commencement Exercises and weekend activities. There is also information about ordering caps and gowns, answers to frequently asked questions and links to other helpful sites.

2012 Commencement Events

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Commencement 2012 Related Links

2012 Commencement Speaker

 

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan,
Archbishop of New York

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, addressed the Class of 2012 at the 123rd Annual Commencement Ceremony of The Catholic University of America on Saturday, May 12.  Cardinal Dolan was also presented with the President's Medal.

Click here for the text of Cardinal Dolan's address, and here for President Garvey's remarks.

Four other individuals received honorary degrees. They were Rev. Julian Carrón, leader of the lay ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation; Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian at Yale University; Carmen Ana Casal de Unanue, community leader and philanthropist; and Joseph A. Unanue, alumnus and former president and CEO of Goya Foods.

Cardinal Dolan was installed as Archbishop of New York by Pope Benedict XVI on Feb. 23, 2009. He became a member of the College of Cardinals on Feb. 18, 2012.

He received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Cardinal Glennon College in St. Louis, Mo., and a license in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome. Subsequently, he studied at The Catholic University of America, earning a doctorate in American Church history.

 

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