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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...

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...

The Blessed Sacrament in St. Benedict's parish church

The Benedictine student’s gift of adoration

Alexandria Armstrong, Staff Writer February 19, 2025

Partnered with Saint Benedict’s Parish, Benedictine College offers students the opportunity of attending perpetual adoration. Above is Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar. At St. Benedict’s...

Alicia Alvarez is excited for the upcoming retreat.

Theology of the Body retreat: ‘Love and fulfillment’

Alexandria Armstrong, Staff Writer February 11, 2025

The Benedictine College Center for Family Life presents their upcoming annual Theology of the Body retreat.   The retreat will take place Feb. 15th in the McAllister Board Room and will feature this...

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The convergence of faith and journalism in the modern age and how Benedictine College media organization is bringing it to the forefront

Quinn McCullough March 23, 2023

In the time of Christ and still today, the Catholic faith and the written word have been converging together. From the Bible to the Catechism and even Catholic news sites like EWTN and now Benedictine...

Fr. Heppler and the man who gave him the walking stick. -Photo provided by Fr. Heppler

The generosity behind a walking stick along the Camino de Santiago

March 21, 2023

Fr. Jeremy Heppler, O.S.B., presented his journey along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage at the St. Benedict’s Catholic School for the parishioners of St. Benedict’s Church. It was along this pilgrimage...

The Abbey against a clear sky. -Picture taken by Sophie Kolars.

Ora et Labora

Sophie Kolars March 1, 2023

The Benedictine Abbey, located in Atchison, KS., was founded in 1857 by Father Henry Lemke, St. Benedict’s Abbey is a huge part of the spiritual and faith life around the Benedictine college campus....

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