Just over a year ago, on January 24, 2009, the Holy See published a decree remitting the excommunications of the four Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) bishops, Alfonso de Galarreta, Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, and Richard Williamson, incurred when they were illicitly consecrated by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the Society’s founder, [...]

As most students are well aware, the drop/add deadline for declaring undergraduate classes has come and gone once again in its usual fleeting nature, with just nine calendar days to muse on which classes one should take – lasting from January 19th to the 27th. And as most students are quite well aware, that is [...]

The Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly known as “TARP,” has been on the forefront of financial news reports since it was passed more than a year ago. Just last week, the program received another hit to its already diminished reputation. Washington first created the 700 billion dollar relief program in order to stabilize the financial [...]

Three weeks after the tragic earthquake rocked Haiti on Jan. 12th, students are living up to Boston College’s motto “Men and women for others” by doing what they can on and off campus to raise money and awareness to help the devastated Caribbean nation. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake caused incomprehensible physical and emotional destruction as Port-Au-Prince [...]

Have you ever been frustrated with Boston College’s system for class registration? Have you ever been prevented from taking a class you wanted (or maybe even needed) to take because it closed before your registration time? Well, you’re not the only one. This semester seems like it was one of the worst semesters to register [...]

The Catholicism 101 column will explain a different aspect of Catholicism each issue. A sacrament is an outward sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church. For Catholics, the seven sacraments are the way to salvation. These sacraments are the sacraments of initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist; the sacraments of healing: [...]

Some students and faculty members mourned the passing of Mary Daly by remembering her as an outspoken Catholic feminist who challenged the Church to morph its teachings to changing social conditions. We join the BC community in mourning her death, and we wish to remember her legacy in terms of reality and not wishful thinking. [...]

Director of Athletics since September of 1997, Gene DeFilippo has seen BC through its transition into the Atlantic Coast Conference. He has been instrumental in strengthening BC’s athletic program by making significant changes to the athletic facilities—including new football practice facilities, a total renovation of Conte Forum, new soccer, field hockey and lacrosse facilities on [...]

Tucked away in a little corner in the first floor of O’Neill library is a room featuring a “spontaneous and constantly updated galleries open to all students for casual creative expression and conversation sponsored by BC libraries and art club.” This exhibit, named The Living Wall, is available to the BC community from January 27 [...]

Over the past almost thirty years, Boston College’s Investment Club has managed to amass $270,000 through their investments in the stock market. How exactly has this group of students accomplished such success? An interview with James Cullen, CSOM senior and vice president of the club, and Kevin Kelly, A&S sophomore, provided me with more financial [...]