This past month, a group known as the Peer Health Exchange advertised positions for students at BC. Peer Health Exchange is a national group that recruits college students to teach health related courses to high school students. A large portion of the group’s curriculum involves sexual education that advocates for the use of contraception. The [...]

The practice of Eucharistic Adoration is an ancient Catholic tradition that remains an integral part of the lives of the faithful. It is a sign of devotion and worship to the exposed Body of Christ, who Catholics believe is present in Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. Eucharistic adoration may take place with the consecrated host [...]

The first time I heard of the Saint Thomas More Society (STM) was when I was invited by the group’s president on Student Activities Day. He informed me of how it was the largest Catholic group on campus and how a regular meeting would consist of an hour of adoration followed by a discussion of [...]

Sola fide is the foremost, and most controversial, sola of the Reformation. Sola fide means “by faith alone.” It was formulated by Luther and became the rallying cry of Reformation theology. In brief, the doctrine states that man is justified before God by faith alone. Luther developed the idea to mean that man is only [...]

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 [...]

At first glance, the Lord’s Prayer is a bold list of demands. In the short, oft-used prayer we demand sustenance from on high, we demand that our sins be forgiven, we demand shelter from evil, and, most astoundingly, we demand the coming of the kingdom. Who, when praying during the Mass, has not briefly paused [...]

When the Boston College men’s hockey team earned the nation’s preseason No. 1 ranking, it wasn’t any surprise. The defending champs, who also finished last year on a remarkable 19-game winning streak, go into this season as a favorite to win it all again. “We’re hungry for another national championship, and we expect to win [...]

Off the ice, Steven Whitney likes to keep things simple. His teammates joke that he only needed to pack one bag to get all of his belongings to college. The walls of his dorm room are unadorned. Patrick Wey speculates that he sleeps on his BC-issued mattress and doesn’t even own a mattress softener. “I [...]

It’s the same story this year. There were many questions going into the 2011-2012 hockey season. How could anybody replace Joe Whitney, Brian Gibbons and Cam Atkinson, who formed one of the most dominant lines in Boston College history? Who could fill Jimmy Hayes’ large shoes? Well, last year’s team ended up featuring one of [...]

How high can the bar be set? Defense wins championships, but there’s much more to the story. On January 21, 2012, Boston College surrendered three goals in the final three minutes of the third period to the University of Maine. The team left the ice with the sour taste of a 7-4 defeat, its fifth [...]