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Deep Dive: A History of St. Benedict’s Parish

Adam Argo, Staff Writer September 19, 2025

Throughout the history of the Catholic Church there’s been this sense of a pendulum swinging in one direction over time until it falls and swings towards the other. This is evident in the architecture...

Professors at Benedictine College meet to Discuss the use of AI in the Classroom

Professors at Benedictine College meet to Discuss the use of AI in the Classroom

Thérèse Temkkit, Copy Editor September 18, 2025

As AI becomes more common, students at Benedictine College have used it as an amplified tool in their education. There have been occasions where students have used AI to complete homework assignments,...

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The journey of BC students to Christ through OCIA

Alexandria Armstrong, Staff Writer May 2, 2025

The Benedictine College Order of Christian Initiation for Adults (OCIA) team initiated 26 students into the Catholic Church this past Sunday, Divine Mercy Sunday. This is the largest group Benedictine...

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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...

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Spiritual direction, its origins, and its impact

Alexandria Armstrong, Staff Writer April 15, 2025

Spiritual direction, the art of Christian listening through discernment with the Holy Spirit and accompaniment, is a spiritual service that many Benedictine College students receive. Spiritual direction...

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 favorite icon of Eastern Christians Club co-founder Alec Lastuka

Eastern Christians find a home at Benedictine

Mary Therese Nuñez, Staff Writer April 6, 2025

Though the popular religious discourse on campus is between the ‘Latin Massers’ and the Novus Ordo attenders, Benedictine College has far more Catholic traditions and rites present than most students...

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...

Visio divina in Lent

Visio divina in Lent

Mary Therese Nuñez, Staff Writer March 20, 2025

“Visio divina”, or the practice of praying with sacred art, is a beautiful and often forgotten form of meditation that can be particularly impactful during Lent.   Directly translated from the...

The Catholic response to IVF

The Catholic response to IVF

Catherine Halbmaier, Staff Writer March 3, 2025

In vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a hot topic in the United States— one the Catholic Church has much to say about. With President Trump’s Feb. 18 executive order and multiple celebrity examples...

Teresa Braun in the ministry office planning music for Mass.

The Liturgy of Music

Alexandria Armstrong, Staff Writer March 2, 2025

Music as a part of the liturgy and a means toward encountering Christ gives the Benedictine College Music Team their mission.   The music team is run by campus ministry student workers. Their role...

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