GRACE Event
Eloisa Gutierrez Staff Writer Dozens of faculty members, undergraduate students and graduate students presented their academic and creative endeavors throughout the J.C. Williams Center in the third-annual Gallery of Research, Artistry and Community Engagement event Friday, April 9. GRACE, held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., featured oral presentations, works of fine arts, research from […]
Image and Likeness magazine has local beginnings, broadening horizon
ELOISA GUTIERREZ STAFF WRITER Franciscan University of Steubenville alumna Maggie Pawsey and senior Franciscan student Rachel Miller have been friends for years. Only recently, however, did they begin to dream of working together in a business partnership. It started at Franciscan, when an organization called Values Outreach was expanding, spreading its mission of embracing one’s human dignity, one’s inherent value. Values Outreach was established […]
Friar talks on saints, suffering, spiritual warfare at women’s holy hour
ELOISA GUTIERREZ STAFF WRITER Several dozen female students gathered in Christ the King Chapel for an hour of Eucharistic adoration and a talk by Brother Daniel Klimek, TOR, at 7 p.m. on Feb. 8. Sister Teresa Reyes, TOR, opened the event, titled “Consoling the Heart of Christ,” with prayer and introductions before praise and worship began. Following […]
Sisters of Life share stories of choosing to trust
ELOISA GUTIERREZ STAFF WRITER Students and sisters filled the Pugliese Auditorium to hear a talk on choosing trust by Sister Faustina Maria Pia and Sister Mary Catherine Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. The Sisters of Life, whose order of consecrated religious takes a fourth vow to protect and enhance the sacredness of every human life, traveled […]
Familiar friar begins role as director of Priestly Discernment Program
ELOISA GUTIERREZ STAFF WRITER Two years ago, the Rev. Jonathan McElhone, TOR, was the associate director of Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Priestly Discernment Program. Now, having returned from a semester in Gaming, Austria, he is back to direct the newly revamped program. McElhone, who can be found serving in Masses, in confessions and on the Los Angeles Mission of Peace and planning Steubenville Youth Conferences, graduated […]
Catholic psychologist speaks on practicing mindfulness to build trust
ELOISA GUTIERREZ STAFF WRITER Students and staff gathered in the Gentile Gallery for a lecture on Catholic mindfulness Sunday Sept. 15 at 9 p.m. Gregory Bottaro, who holds a doctorate in philosophy and is the founder and director of the CatholicPsych Institute, visited campus to share the integration of mindfulness and Catholicism. “We’ve thrown out […]
Austria Adventures: The time is now
ELOISA GUTIERREZ AUSTRIA CORRESPONDENT In our first week of the semester we were taken on a tour around Gaming, Austria. At that time Europe was our next adventure and a Carthusian monastery our temporary home. As we returned to the Kartause, I looked around at the snow-covered Alps and wondered if I could ever live […]
Austria Adventures: Love does more
ELOISA GUTIERREZ AUSTRIAN CORRESPONDENT It’s Parents’ Week here at the Kartause! Busloads of parents and siblings arrived a few days ago. Our Kartause community has gotten to share so much of what we love here in Austria as well as our talents in a talent show that included guitars, Irish reels from the Kartause kids […]
Austria Adventures: Hello, Pure Gift
ELOISA GUITTEREZ AUSTRIAN CORRESPONDENT Guten tag! It is the closing of midterm week here in Gaming, but the dust is just barely beginning to settle before we pack up our bags and drive through the night to Poland. I know I’ve mentioned this in practically all of my past articles, but theology of the body […]
Austria Adventures: The Big Three
ELOISA GUTIERREZ AUSTRIAN CORRESPONDENT It is week three, and we leave for our pilgrimage in two hours. Four days in Rome and then three days in Assisi. While the excitement was building this last week, our classes, papers and looming exams did not leave much time for daydreaming. I am learning to love the Gaming […]