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Benedictine College supports student battling cancer with acts of faith and brotherhood

Joseph Calabria, Staff Writer April 22, 2025

The Benedictine College community has come together in an amazing display of faith and support Alex Lynch, a junior finance major from Iowa who has been courageously battling cancer for nearly five years. Lynch...

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Easter traditions around campus

Alexandria Armstrong, Staff Writer April 22, 2025

Easter, the high point of the liturgical year, is celebrated in various forms on and off campus. Several students go home for Easter and celebrate the holiday with their families and have family traditions...

The Benedictine College Concrete Canoe Club

Concrete Canoe Club takes fourth in regional competition

Catherine Halbmaier, Staff Writer April 15, 2025

For the second consecutive year, the Concrete Canoe Club traveled to compete regionally against other colleges and universities. Though it may sound counterintuitive, a group of engineering students...

Loomings literary magazine highlights 'the beauty of the process'

Loomings literary magazine highlights ‘the beauty of the process’

Catherine Halbmaier, Staff Writer April 9, 2025

Original, authentic art has become more important than ever in the era of AI and endless remakes. However, Benedictine students are committed to keeping art alive through Loomings, the college literary...

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Discovering Discovery Day

Mary Therese Nuñez, Staff Writer April 9, 2025

Each year on Discovery Day, the Benedictine College community cancels classes and gathers for a whole day to hear and honor the academic projects of its students.  Discovery Day was started in 1996,...

A life-sized Shroud of Turin replica served as the centerpiece of the Pace e Bene Exhibit.

Pace e Bene hosts Shroud of Turin Exhibit

Catherine Halbmaier, Staff Writer April 7, 2025

Pace e Bene Catholic Shoppe in downtown Atchison is hosting a Lenten exhibit, which features hundreds of first-class relics of saints and centers around a life size, museum quality replica on the Shroud...

A new perspective on spring and students’ academic performance 

A new perspective on spring and students’ academic performance 

Alexandria Armstrong, Staff Writer April 6, 2025

Spring, a season of rising temperatures, increasing daylight, sunnier skies, and more social activities means a change in pace for the Benedictine College student body.   Students find themselves...

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Benedictine students talk March Madness 

Joseph Calabria, Staff Writer April 6, 2025

March Madness has evolved into one of the biggest sporting events in the United States, captivating millions of fans each year.   The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments feature 68 teams...

Ravens take on mission trips

Alexandria Armstrong, Staff Writer March 31, 2025

Over spring break, dozens of Benedictine students embarked on mission trips to several places around the world.  Cecilia Howell said her mission trip team went to Mexico to provide medical care...

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Kansas Catholics to take a prayerful stand against satanic ‘black mass’

Catherine Halbmaier, Staff Writer March 26, 2025

Editor’s note: This is a developing story. For updates, see the Archdiocesan news page. Archbishop Joesph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, has issued a call to prayer in response to the upcoming...

Women's Basketball

Benedictine College Women’s Basketball Wins Conference

Joseph Calabria, Staff Writer March 24, 2025

The Benedictine Women’s basketball team achieved a victory this past week, March 3rd, in the Heart of America conference championship, MidAmerica Nazarene. It was a hard-fought victory, with the result...

Catholic Film Club podcast host Michael Coy and his wife outside a theater for his birthday

BC’s Catholic Film Club podcast builds community around movies

Mary Therese Nuñez, Staff Writer March 18, 2025

Benedictine’s new podcast, the Catholic Film Club, is a new platform for filmmakers and BC professors to discuss the craft and morality of movies, and, its hosts say, "build a community of faith and...

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