Chris Canniff Effective February 28 at 8pm Rome time, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will resign the office of the papacy. This announcement was made public in an address delivered by the Holy Father to a group of Church officials gathered at the Vatican yesterday.  The pope spoke to his fellow prelates in Latin, [...]

A regional meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) convened on Saturday, October 20 at Merrimack College in North Andover, MA.  Members of the Boston College chapter of AAUP, as well as faculty from Curry College, Simmons College, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of New Hampshire among others, were in attendance [...]

On Friday, September 21, the Boston College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (BCAAUP) met in Higgins 300 to discuss various issues facing the faculty.  BCAAUP is an organization seeking to increase the voice of faculty in university governance and is headed by Professor Susan Michalczyk of the College of Arts & Sciences [...]

Born Helena Kowalska in Poland in 1905, St. Faustina was the third of ten children in a peasant family. From an early age, she desired to enter religious life, but her parents were strongly against the idea. Instead, she got a job as a housekeeper at the age of 16 in order to help support [...]

Pius X was born Giuseppe Sarto in the Veneto region of northern Italy on June 2, 1835.  He came from a large, impoverished family; nevertheless, he was an exceptionally bright student, and he excelled in classical, philosophical, and theological studies. Ordained a priest in 1858 and consecrated Bishop of Mantua in 1884, Sarto devoted all his [...]

On Thursday, April 19, the Rev. Bradley M. Schaeffer, SJ tendered his resignation from the Boston College Board of Trustees following the publication of an article in The Boston Globe which implicated him in the mismanagement of Donald McGuire, a pedophile and former Jesuit priest who was under Fr. Schaeffer’s charge in the Chicago Province [...]

On Wednesday, March 21, a panel discussion was held in Gasson 206 on religion and homosexuality.  The event was hosted by Allies, the gay-straight alliance at Boston College. Moderated by Allies Vice President Melanie Courtemanche, A&S ’13, the panel consisted of four speakers: a local Jewish rabbinical student, two Episcopalian BC faculty members, and one [...]

In this and the following few years, the Church will acknowledge and celebrate in many modes the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.  However, roughly one month ago an arguably significant, yet widely unknown, document of the Church reached its fiftieth anniversary, which came and went unnoticed. In February 1962, a mere eight months [...]

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 [...]

On Tuesday, February 9, the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life hosted a panel on the nuanced role of religion within our country’s military.  The panel consisted of two distinguished experts. The first, Associate Professor of Religion Jonathan Ebel of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a former Lieutenant Commander in the [...]