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By Grace Ostuni Staff Writer National On January 20, students from the Our Lady of the Rosary School in Greenville, South Carolina, were asked to leave the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. because of their pro-life hats. The group was visiting the museum before attending the annual March for Life. The students […]
COVID-19 closes university campus for semester
RACHEL MILLER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Franciscan University of Steubenville’s campus closed for the rest of the spring 2020 semester, March 17. Both the university’s Steubenville, Ohio, and Gaming, Austria, campuses have been closed in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Students in Gaming had already learned that the scheduled 10-day trip to Italy had been cancelled […]
Talented student shares his work with others, presents gift to Pope Francis
CECILIA ENGBERT STAFF WRITER Everyone dreams of meeting their favorite celebrity someday, but few actually do. However, one student from Franciscan University of Steubenville decided to dream big and present a handmade gift to Pope Francis on his birthday. In December, sophomore chemistry student William Dougherty travelled to Rome to give the pope a wood carving he […]
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ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST National New West Virginia bishop demands disgraced successor makes amends Disgraced Bishop Michael Bransfield, the former leader of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, needs to apologize to people he sexually harassed, apologize to the Catholics in his diocese and repay almost $800,000 to begin making reparations to the diocese he led […]
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ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST National Abp. Gomez elected president, McCarrick investigation and more discussed at USCCB meeting Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez was elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) during the bishops’ fall assembly. Archbishop Gomez, the first Latino to be elected president of the conference, had previously served as conference […]
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ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST National Dem candidate vows to repeal tax exemption for churches supporting traditional marriage Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman and a current candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said last week that religious institutions, including colleges, churches and charities, should lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage. O’Rourke […]
Catholic Values Column: Germany’s bishops are destroying their Church
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST If Pope Francis is worried about an entire country’s bishops not acting in communion with Rome, something is definitely wrong. Yet that’s where Germany’s bishops find themselves today, toeing the line between giving each other advice and changing the Catholic Church for the worse. Francis condemned Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop […]
ResLife joins with Ave Maria to organize rosaries for Pope Francis
VERONICA NOVOTNY STAFF WRITER Students at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Ave Maria University are coming together this Lent to present Pope Francis with a spiritual bouquet of rosaries prayed for his intentions. The residence life staff (ResLife) of Sts. Kolbe and Clare Residence Halls has been in charge of organizing and promoting “Rosaries for […]
Catholic Values Column: Not a Francis fan, but I’m still praying for him
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST I’m going to be honest. I really don’t like Pope Francis as a pope. It’s a hard place for me to be. I have a great admiration and immense respect for the office of the papacy, its history and its members, including Pope Francis. The role the Holy Father plays […]
Movie screening highlights heroic witness of newly canonized saint
JOSEPH FUSSELMAN STAFF WRITER On Saturday, Oct. 13, residents of St. Junipero Serra Hall watched a movie screening of “Romero,” the story of St. Oscar Romero, which was followed by a discussion in anticipation of his canonization the following day. Armed with several boxes of pizza and a tub of sherbet, the men settled down […]