Pope Benedict XVI recently invited the bishops of Ireland to the Vatican for a two-day conference concerning the Irish Bishops’ response to the priest sex-abuse scandal.
The Catholic News Service (CNS) noted the discrepancy between the participants’ assessment of the meeting and the outside media coverage. According to CNS, the Pope and the Bishops saw the [...]

Everyone knows that one person who is always “keeping score.” He or she may say “I forgive you” but what is really meant is “I forgive you but I’m not forgetting this.” This adolescent clinging to old injuries is not how God means for us to live.
Yes, God set forth the 10 Commandments. And through [...]

Boston College faculty, staff, and students convened in Saint Ignatius Church for a special evening celebration of the Mass. Father Francis Hermann was the homilist and Father Leahy, president of BC, presided at the liturgy, which was offered for the suffering people in Haiti,
Ever since the January 12 earthquake devastated Haiti and moved the international [...]

I am sure that everyone has heard his or her parents fondly reminisce about life when they were younger. I know growing up, my own parents often cautioned my brother and me about spending too much time talking to friends on the computer. A few times my parents mentioned how they actually wrote letters back [...]

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be” John 1:1—3.
Language is critical in human relationships. Its precise function is to convey meaning. A successful gauge [...]

“Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it’” Matthew 16:24—25.
At first glance, this statement is hard to understand. How can [...]

This past Thursday, Alasdair MacIntyre, the O’Brien Senior Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame, packed McGuinn 121 for his thought provoking lecture “Philosophical Education Against Contemporary Culture.” Sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century, the speech was a part of the continuing Albert J. Fitzgibbons Lecture Series in Boston College’s Philosophy Department.
Professor [...]

“A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the Lord—but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake—but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake there was fire—but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire there was a [...]

Artificial birth control is an especially rampant and controversial practice in our culture. The issue is particularly relevant to campus life, since some Boston College students last year pushed for “prescription of birth control at Health Services [and the] availability of condoms on campus” under the euphemism of “sexual health.”
The problem with artificial contraception, according [...]

Central to BC’s identity as a Catholic, Jesuit university, the Boston College community, with University President Fr. William P. Leahy, S.J., at its head, celebrated the year-opening Mass of the Holy Spirit September 17, in the heart of campus in O’Neill Plaza. With noontime classes cancelled, O’Neill Plaza was filled to the brim with faculty, [...]