In an interview with German journalist Peter Seewald for a recently published book, Pope Benedict XVI directly addressed the question of the Catholic Church’s teaching on contraception in the modern world. The Church’s long-standing teaching has been a ban of artificial contraception within marriage. Teachings on its use in sex outside of marriage have never [...]
Marc L'Heureux
Marc is (nominally) the copy editor for The Observer. He’d rather he weren’t, but he is, so he’ll deal with it. His main responsibilities include making sure that the editor in chief doesn’t publish something so offensive that major donors pull funding, but his job description says he only has to find obvious grammatical and stylistic errors before putting the paper to print. He usually does neither. In his free time, he enjoys reading classic novels, streaming television off of Netflix, and eating DoubleStuf Oreos with whole milk. Anything less than whole milk is udderly unacceptable. Marc is also a comedian, but if you don’t think he’s funny, it’s probably going over your head. Marc is currently enjoying his longest stint without quitting the Observer from anger with the reigning administration, so you can start placing bets on how much longer that will last now. He gives it two more weeks.Marc's Articles
The Answer is Still No
12/7/10, Catholic Issues Dec 7, 2010Seminary Hosts Leading Scholar of Blessed Newman
10/19/10, Catholic Issues Oct 19, 2010
On Friday and Saturday, St. John’s Seminary hosted a conference on Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. The event was held in honor of Newman’s beatification by Pope Benedict XVI on September 19 in the United Kingdom. Friday night consisted of a lecture delivered by Fr. Ian Ker entitled “Newman’s (and Benedict XVI’s) Hermeneutic of Continuity.” [...]
Yves Congar Discussed in C21 Conference
10/5/10, Catholic Issues Oct 5, 2010
Participants in a conference entitled “Yves Congar on the Vocation and Mission of the Laity”, hosted by The Church in the 21st Century Center, gathered in the Murray function room in Yawkey Center on Friday. The program was a part of the series for the 2010-2011 academic year, which has the theme “Grace and Commitment: [...]
Pope Benedict travels to United Kingdom
9/21/10, Catholic Issues Sep 21, 2010Pope Benedict arrived in Scotland on Thursday as he began his first papal visit to the United Kingdom, and the first state visit by a pope to the UK in history. The pope traveled to the UK on the invitation of Queen Elizabeth. He also took the opportunity to personally preside over the beatification of [...]
Catholicism 101: Fasting and Abstinence
4/27/10, Catholic Issues Apr 27, 2010Most people know that Catholics are forbidden to eat meat on Fridays during the liturgical season of Lent. However, considerably fewer realize that Catholics are, generally, forbidden from eating meat on any Friday in the year. The practice of refraining from eating meat, called abstinence, is a very old tradition in the Church. It developed [...]
Boston College Jesuit Celebrates Mass for Life
3/30/10, Catholic Issues Mar 30, 2010On March 25, members of the Boston College and local communities celebrated a “Mass for Life” in St. Mary’s Chapel on the Boston College campus. About 40 people, including two dozen graduate and undergraduate students, attended the 7:30pm Mass. Members of local parishes led the Rosary immediately preceding the Mass. Fr. Raymond Helmick, SJ presided [...]
Making the Most of Lent
3/16/10, Catholic Issues Mar 16, 2010Halfway through Lent, most people need a kick start. Whether they miss Sunday Mass, failed at their Lenten discipline, or feel spiritually “tired”. March 14th was Laetare Sunday. This Sunday is designed specifically to be full of joy and encourage Christians on their journey through an otherwise quite somber season. Lent is the liturgical season [...]
Giving a Name to the Issue of Abortion
10/6/09, Catholic Issues Oct 6, 2009Apparently abortion is one of those things we don’t talk about in Mass. In what I can only guess is an act of ecumenism towards the American Catholic Church on the part of St. Ignatius Church, the priests refuse to call this evil by its name. I recognize that it is not the place of [...]
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