It is easy to fall into a certain way of looking at the city of Boston.  We are perched atop Chestnut Hill in our Catholic school, looking out at a city that is well known for its Irish heritage, and therefore Catholic people, right?
Certainly nobody at BC believes that every Bostonian is an Irish Catholic, [...]

This Lent, the Archdiocese of Boston launched “The Light Is On For You,” an initiative inviting the faithful to return to the Sacrament of Penance.  Every parish in the Archdiocese will be open on Wednesday evenings during Lent, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm, to hear confessions.
The Archdiocese launched a website to provide information on the sacrament [...]

Beginning on Wednesday of last week, Catholics began the observance of Lent, the forty-day period of preparation for Easter.  As is typically the case, Masses on Ash Wednesday were quite crowded, and many people around campus could be seen with ashes on their foreheads.  It is rare, however, to see so many people at Mass [...]

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 [...]

For the American servicemen and women who are Catholic, finding a church on Sundays is not an easy task. To alleviate this hardship, Pope Pius XII created the military ordinariate in 1939. This grew out of an informal brotherhood of volunteer priests, formed in 1917.
Originally, the military ordinariate branched from the Archdiocese of New York, [...]

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 [...]

We include here a selection (Feb. 19, 2010) from the blog sedaily.wordpress.com.  This Lenten themed blog is published by Jesuit priests and scholastics concerned with bringing the spirit of this liturgical season to an increasingly technologically focused society. The Observer highly recommends this website, and we are thankful to the Jesuits who gave permission for [...]

Friday the 22nd of January marked the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade which stated that denying women access to abortion is a violation of due process of law.  In protest of the decision, seen by critics as a clear case of judicial activism, a reading into the constitution of “rights” [...]

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 [...]