Members of the Loyola and Tulane communities gathered together to celebrate the Passover tradition known as the Seder on April 7. Athough the Seder typically lasts several hours, the shortened ceremony...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has appealed for an end to the fighting in Libya and the Ivory Coast. Speaking at his public audience Wednesday, Benedict said "violence and hatred are always...
Although Loyola is a Jesuit institution, I believe that religious tolerance is extremely important. Loyola's mission statement welcomes diversity through its students and wishes to educate them so that...
The number of religious studies students is on the rise, and the reasons behind it vary as greatly as the religions taught. Compared to only four students either majoring or minoring in religious studies...
Ignatius Chapel will play host to a reading of the new Order of Mass on Sunday, April 10 at noon. The new Order of Mass is scheduled to be implemented on Nov. 27, 2011, the first Sunday of Advent. According...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A French nun whose inexplicable cure from Parkinson's disease was the miracle needed to beatify Pope John Paul II will have a starring role in the Vatican's three-day, around-the-clock...
The Church and ancient Rome make for strange bedfellows, given the initial hostility between the two. How ironic that the same language, within the span of a few hundred years, proclaimed not only...
Loyola's University Ministry will donate all collections taken up during Masses to Japanese disaster relief during this Lenten season. The donations will then go to Catholic Relief Services, where they...
Some claim that students have a way of swaying their peers in a way that faculty and staff just can't. For almost a decade, the Awakening retreat has been organized by students who say they want...
Loyola's Lenten retreat has brought about more than just self-denial for many at Loyola this Lenten season. Some members of Loyola's community are participating in the retreat, which lasts from...
One of the distinguishing features of Catholicism is the sacrament of reconciliation, which for many is a deal-killer. From my experience in talking with many Protestant teens, older adults and even Catholics,...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than 500 students, parents and other supporters of a St. Augustine, a Roman Catholic high school, is under fire for its use of corporal punishment, marched to the New Orleans...
