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Hope, When All Hope Is Lost
By Ruth Statz Staff Writer Hope is seemingly contrary to the natural human instinct. We like to operate from a secure standpoint. We carry around planners on our phones to plan out our every move down to the very minute; planners to plan our days, weeks, months, even years. It’s as though the only way […]
Panel discussion brings light to racism
Stanley Colaço Staff Writer Catholics should take an active role in being aware of and addressing racism, said a panel of four black members of the Franciscan University of Steubenville community, Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Gentile Gallery. The panel — consisting of Matthew Breuninger, a who holds a doctorate in psychology, the Rev. […]
Married couple presents new dimensions of emotional chastity
Photo by Andrea Beganskas Jen Hantz Staff Writer Students filed into the Gentile Gallery on Tuesday Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. for a talk by a married couple on how to live out authentic relationships in the midst of a culture obsessed with romance. Randall Tan, a Culture Project missionary, said it is not enough […]
Catholic Vote panel discusses political issues
Photo by Mary-Grace Bryers Bethany Doudna Staff Writer At the Catholic Vote panel discussion Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6 panelists from among Franciscan University of Steubenville’s faculty discussed how a Catholic point of view should influence one’s choices in the upcoming presidential election. Regis Martin, who holds a doctorate in sacred theology, Patrick Lee, who holds […]
The communist chokehold on the Chinese church
Leo Brian Schafer Catholic Values Columnist For decades now, the communist government of the People’s Republic of China has been persecuting religion. Uighur Muslims are rounded up and put into prison camps, and practitioners of the cult-like Falun Gong faith are suppressed and even rumored to have been killed. Most pertinently for our purposes, Christian […]
Exorcist teaches how to prevent demonic activity
Photo by Elena Mirus Alexander Spieldenner Staff Writer The Rev. Vincent Lampert, an author and an exorcist for the Archdiocese of Indiana, presented at the Finnegan Fieldhouse 8 p.m. Monday to share his experiences of freeing people from the devil. Lampert spoke for about an hour, talking about what he had seen as the primary […]
Catholics should listen to non-Christian music
Tabitha Silva Staff Writer Catholics should do many things. Catholics should attend Mass as much as possible, especially on Sundays and holy days of obligations. Catholics should pray and meditate on the rosary. Catholics should be charitable. Catholics should know the teachings of the Church and be a walking example of the life laid out […]
Stop choosing harmful entertainment
Alexander Spieldenner Staff Writer Music is one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment available to us today, and for many people it is consumed almost constantly. It is one of our most constant sources of data, and can have the power to both express and process very strong, intense emotions. But for […]
Panel talks same-sex attraction, gift of sexuality
Tabitha Silva Staff Writer Both floors of the Gentile Gallery were filled with students Monday 9 p.m. for the panel discussion titled “Same-sex desire/same-sex attraction: Living an integrated life,” one of the last events of the Gift of Human Sexuality Symposium. Moderated by the Rev. Jonathan St. Andre, TOR, the panel consisted of the Rev. […]
Conversion, evangelization and advice: A conversation with Matt Fradd
Photo by Elena Mirus Leo Brian Schafer Catholic Values Columnist Your conversion story bears retelling. How did you go from agnostic to the Church of Rome and now to attending a Byzantine Church? “I was raised in a family that was Catholic, but my dad wasn’t. I was forced to go to holy Mass each […]