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…
ELISHA VALLADARAS-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST With Thanksgiving over and Advent underway, it is unquestionably now secular Christmas season. To this point in time, most of us have been in a back-and-forth as to when it’s appropriate to start playing “White…
NICK MERSCH SPORTS EDITOR Baltimore Ravens: IN If you read my last column, you know what I think about Lamar Jackson. He’s quite literally unstoppable and so exciting to watch. Jackson coupled with a strong running game featuring Mark Ingram…
EDYTA WOLK AUSTRIA COLUMNIST Well, here I am, writing my last Austria column. This semester has gone by in the blink of an eye, and I feel like it was just yesterday that I was sharing with you all both…
AN OBSERVANT SOCIALITE The Society of Truth attracted powerful statements and heated arguments at its latest debate last Sunday. Well over 200 students gathered in the Gentile Gallery to discuss the topic: “This house believes that it is anti-Christian to play Christmas music prior to…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST “I believe in the sun, even when it’s not shining. I believe in love, even when I feel it not. I believe in God, even when he is silent.” It is the day before Thanksgiving, and for…
FR. JONATHAN ST. ANDRÉ, T.O.R. The question is often asked, “Is Advent a penitential season (like Lent)?” The answer is a bit tricky. On the negative, the “Code of Canon Law” is clear that it is not: “The penitential days and times in the universal Church are…
SARAH KADERBEK CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Reader, I graduated. OK, not yet, but this is the final print of the semester and my final column. My tenure on this hallowed page has been brief, but hopefully, you few (you happy few,…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Early in my tenure as fine arts columnist for this publication, I issued an exhortation to my fellow artists encouraging them to make art and reminding them that, whatever capacity it takes on, their work is…
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST In my three and a half years on this hill, nothing stirs an outrage quite like the discussion of the Sacred Liturgy. And perhaps the word “discussion” is too generous of a label for these interactions, primarily conducted online. Some…