A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST The semester is almost at an end. Students’ assignments are wrapping up, and finals are closing in. The season of Advent has begun, with Christmas music abounding and a beautiful candle wreath in Christ the King…
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMN If you’ve looked at the news at all recently, you’ve probably seen something about the attempted impeachment of President Trump by some members of the Democratic party. When I first started researching, my main query was simply “why?” I donned…
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST I grew up watching Disney’s anthropomorphic, animated “Robin Hood” movie, a pure, timeless classic. I used to imagine myself as one of Robin’s Merry Men, living in a beautiful forest, wearing a stylish leather jerkin and green tights and sneaking into Prince John’s palace to steal back money for the desperate poor. Oh, and practicing archery. What a life. But…
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST When I studied abroad, I travelled to Galway, Ireland, for a couple days with two close friends, staying at a bed-and-breakfast run by an abrasive old Irish man who greeted us by calling us “Yanks.” At…
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST A lecture emphasizing the differences between men and women and the ideological problems inherent in transgenderism educated students Oct. 11 in the Gentile Gallery. Addressing a crowd of students and members of the Catholic Social Workers’ National Association conference, Patrick Lee, professor of bioethics, spoke on the issue…
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST “If we lose touch with Judaism, we lose touch with the Incarnation,” said the Rev. Anthony Ariniello as he presented on the Jewish roots of Lord’s Day Monday Sept. 30. Over 50 attendees, including two nuns, assembled in the…
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST If you follow any Gen-Z bloggers, Instagram or Tumblr accounts or Twitter profiles, you’ve probably seen complaints about the “rich white men” who run the economy, who run for office and who run away from…
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST Why, hello there! This is the Political Papist, a column about Catholics in politics. If you’re anything like me, you probably think politics is difficult, disheartening and obnoxious. That’s true. But, as children of God and…
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST About a dozen students gathered in the amphitheater next to Christ the King chapel to watch and participate in a battle of emotion, drama and in-character acting known as Impromptu Shakespeare on sunny Sept. 13. The…