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College President: Enthroning Sacred Heart Brought "Too Many Blessings to Count
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (446+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture "This is one of the most important gatherings of our lives," President Stephen D. Minnis said when the college enthroned the Sacred Heart on campus in 2016. His words proved prophetic. In the 10 years since, Benedictine College in…...
Pope Leo Puts a Spell on Madrid " and Challenges Spaniards
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (795+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture When Pope Leo XIV arrived, the room erupted. He greeted the crowd as the ovation extended over 10 minutes. I was in Madrid, Spain, and was invited to an event where the Holy Father met with leaders…...
Pope Leo on AI: Technology Diminishes the Magnificence of Mankind
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1059+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture From the moment I encountered the phrase, the way Leo deploys the term here struck me as both unusual and deeply evocative. In fact, as I've reflected on the document over the course of the last…...
Pope Leo XIV Appoints Benedictine College Board Member to Vatican Post
1+ week, 4+ day ago (401+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture A member of the Benedictine College Board of Directors will be joining Pope Leo XIV in Rome to head communications for the entire Church. Pope Leo XIV has appointed Maria Montserrat Alvarado president and chief operating…...
Was Keats Right When He Said "Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (224+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture As we prepare for the September 4-5, 2026, Symposium on Transforming Culture (Theme: The Church in an Algorithmic Age) Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, is presenting papers from the last Symposium (Theme: Only the Lover Sings, on Beauty…...
Benedictine College Responds to Leaflet and Email Campaign Targeting Church Teaching on Judaism
4+ week, 1+ day ago (396+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture In late April, Benedictine College was repeatedly leafletted with anonymous flyers from a group calling itself "Coalition of Catholics Against Jewish Supremacy." The flyer claimed that one Benedictine College theologian spreads blasphemy, that those who attended…...
Fellin Lecture Highlights Synod and Women in the Life of the Church
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (881+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture Mount St. Scholastica Prioress, Sister Mary Elizabeth Schweiger, left, with the Fellin Lecture speaker, Kim Daniels, J. D. Kim Daniels, J. D. , a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication who served in the 2021-24 Synod on Synodality as an expert…...
Visiting Priest Got Master's Degree and More at College
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (387+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture A Master's Degree in Classical Education Leadership was just one kind of education a Nebraska priest received at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. He also experienced the joy that comes from bringing college students into the…...
Dear Catholic Liturgies " Thank you: The Easter Triduum, 3 Sundays Later
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (444+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture Young & Catholic Column It is now the Third Sunday of Easter. What better time to reflect on Holy Week and the Triduum? Reflecting on these liturgical experiences raises a key question: How can I keep living…...
As AI Reshapes Us, Vatican Asks: Where Are You Going, Humanity?
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (454+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture We are inhabiting a moment in which digitalization is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace. Day by day, screens, algorithms, and infrastructures of virtual reality are becoming the dominant frame through which we move through…...