Crammed at the back of any Bible you will find a small section that makes up for not even the last third of the book’s total girth.  It is a short (by comparison), little-known book called the New Testament. You may be tempted to wonder why such an obviously massively important work should be stapled [...]

If you had access to a time machine good for only one trip to and from the past, you would be well advised to set your dial for AD 325.  Rome in its aging glory would have something for everyone.  Gladiatorial games were not yet banned by Constantine I, and the arrests and executions of [...]

Over the past week, Boston College students have had the opportunity to experience some of the greatest musical accomplishments counted among the Church’s vast liturgical patrimony.  Orchestral Masses are seldom heard within the context of today’s liturgy, but their prevalence as concert pieces is still quite high. On Thursday, February 23, the College of Arts [...]

By the end of 2012 our world will have undoubtedly met a cataclysmic end at the hands of some god or another.  Although we cannot be sure exactly what a return of Kinich Ahau, the Mayan sun god, will look like, the Catholic God has been relatively candid about what his end-times will entail.  So [...]

Members of the BC community young and old crossed the street to Brighton campus this past Thursday to hear Mellissa Kelley’s lecture on “Healing Through Pastoral Care.”  The BC School of Theology and Ministry sponsored the event. Kelley began her talk with a look at what “pastoral care” means.  The very roots of the word [...]

“Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said to him, one thing you lack: go your way, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor,” Mark, 10:21.  Jesus’ words to this wealthy man in the Gospel of Mark are only the start of Jesus’ famous and rather troubling tirade regarding wealth.  “It is easier” [...]

Boston College Catholics, or really anyone with an interest in the church or its history, has reason to make their way to Devlin hall from now until June 5th.  This semester, BC’s McMullen Museum of Art has hosted the Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity exhibit, which is on loan from Yale’s collections. The truly unique exhibition [...]

The Church in the 21st Century sponsored this past Monday’s event in Fulton Hall.  It featured Cardinal Roger Michael Mahoney, Archbishop of Los Angeles, who came to share his own experiences within the ministry of the Bishop.  The audience held a surprising mix of everyone from undergraduate students to professors and priests, all of whom [...]

Most of us are old enough to be done worrying about the monster under our bed, but that doesn’t mean we’re done lying awake at night in fright.  Entering the real world, and worrying about forging a successful life for ourselves outside the security of BC can be the stuff of upperclassmen’s nightmares.  Fortunately we [...]

Brighton Campus hosted a crowd of both young and old this past Wednesday afternoon as Father Daniel Harrington shared his insight on the matter of vocation.  Sponsored by the Church in the 21st century, the event continued along the C21’s yearlong theme. Harrington’s presentation delved right into a look at the various people in biblical [...]