Just before students began returning to classes, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new policy that would require all group health care plans provided by employers – including many Catholic institutions – to cover prescription contraceptives and sterilization for women. The Interim Final Rules on Preventive Services (76 Fed. Reg. [...]

Continuing a centuries old tradition, University President Fr. William P. Leahy, SJ, assisted by Fr. Jack Butler and Fr. Gregory Kalscheur, led members of the Boston College community in the Mass of the Holy Spirit, a hallmark of Jesuit universities. Typically held outside in O’Neill Plaza, the Mass was celebrated in Conte Forum on September [...]

At the recent BC football game verses Duke University, Boston College students sh owed their support for hero Welles Crowther, who perished in the World Trade Center on 9/11, by filing into Conte Forum wearing red bandanas.  A member of the Boston College class of 1999, Crowther is recognized for saving at least a dozen [...]

Right now it’s the middle of September 2011. The Iowa caucuses aren’t until February of next year, the Republican National Convention isn’t until August, and the general election isn’t until November. To put this into perspective, if this was Star Wars we would just be pulling into Mos Eisley. Yet there seems to be another [...]

One of the most endearing qualities about the human civilization is our innate desire to preserve the teachings and masterpieces of the past. Throughout history, it seems that there has always been a propensity for people to recognize the cultural, social, and intellectual impacts of certain landmark pieces, in various forms, and to concern themselves [...]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts requires all insurance plans, including those offered by Catholic universities, to cover contraceptives.  Boston College, like many Catholic colleges in the state, has dutifully complied with this law, even though Catholic teaching strongly opposes the use of artificial contraception. Belmont Abby, a Catholic Benedictine college in Belmont, North Carolina, faced a similar [...]

“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.” St. Rose of Lima, patroness of America, was famous for uttering and living these words. Born to wealthy parents in Peru, Rose was baptized as Isabel de Herrara. Her name later changed to Rose, inspired by the belief that [...]

After a disappointing 0-2 start to the 2011 football season, the Eagles’ game on Saturday proved to their loyal fans that, yes, the situation can get worse. The much anticipated game had the potential to be a great point of rebound for the Eagles as they took the field, favored against ACC rival Duke with [...]

Under the three-stage “liquidity” plan recently announced by the Federal Reserve and other European officials, the U.S. central bank will print money to bail out the EU.   The goal of the program is to supply dollars Europe can use to buy its own bonds in an effort to prevent the entire European economy from [...]

The Burns Library has debuted a new exhibition entitled “Binding Friendship: Ricci, China and Jesuit Cultural Leanings.”  The exhibition focuses on the numerous cross-cultural exchanges permeating relations between the East and West in the late 16th century.  Matteo Ricci, one of the most famous Jesuit missionaries of the time period, is given special attention as [...]