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Spirituality abounds on campus

Posted on 21 August 2008 by Thomas Klind

If you took a tour as a prospective first year student at Marquette, you were probably made aware of our great reputation as a school of higher learning. You most likely experienced a brief overview of what goes on at University Ministry, now Campus Ministry, from your tour guide as you walked through the union, [...] Continue Reading

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Voting the issues: Marquette Catholics reflect on candidate abortion positions

Posted on 13 March 2008 by Remington Tonar

Christian voters are always confronted with difficult choices during election years and this year is turning out to be no different. Last Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama was victorious in the Wisconsin Democratic primary. Obama has a consistent record of supporting abortion, including partial birth abortion, the ban on which he did not support when he [...] Continue Reading

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How Catholic is Marquette? Not enough

Posted on 07 November 2007 by Robert Christensen

There were many reasons why I chose to attend Marquette. I thought the campus was beautiful; I liked the city atmosphere and I was looking for a decent sized school with smaller classes. But the most important reason was Marquette’s Catholic identity. Having attended Catholic school throughout [...] Continue Reading

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Hypocrisy and the whole of Catholic social teaching

Posted on 02 November 2007 by Daniel Suhr

Every year, the Office of Student Development sponsors a Leadership Summit that brings Marquette students together to discuss a pressing issue or theme. I have attended several in the past and found them a mixture of generating productive ideas and kumbaya handholding. This year’s theme is built around [...] Continue Reading

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Freshmen summer reading: Manresa’s Missed Mission

Posted on 02 November 2007 by Abbi Ott

The First Year Reading Program aims to encourage students to see life from different perspectives but how is this mission being perceived by students? Arriving in the mailboxes of incoming freshmen everywhere, book assignments for the First Year Reading Program have become an unsavory summer homework project. Each year, the Manresa [...] Continue Reading

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Administration must be more strict with Maguire

Posted on 25 April 2007 by Daniel Suhr

He went looking for a fight and he found one. Daniel Maguire, a member of Marquette’s Theology Department, sent a pair of pamphlets to all 270 American Catholic bishops – one arguing abortion is moral, the other arguing for gay marriage. In a rare move, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, composed of eight [...] Continue Reading

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Mixed reactions to ‘Monologues’

Posted on 25 April 2007 by Katie Pope

Considering the controversy over the past weeks, titling the April 14 dramatic reading of the Vagina Monologues “An Academic Conversation on Catholicism, Sexuality, and Human Rights,” seemed a simplistic approach to a complex issue. The Monologues were hosted off-campus last year, but last weekend was the first time it was ever performed on Marquette’s campus. Before [...] Continue Reading

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Perfect Planning

Posted on 28 February 2007 by Katelyn Ferral

For some couples, the decision to not have a child seems as easy as a reach for the Pill or a condom. But that’s not the case for Joshua Schulz, a teaching assistant and graduate student by day and Natural Family Planning advocate by night. Schulz, who teaches philosophy at Marquette, and his wife Christine not [...] Continue Reading

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Marching on fertile ground

Posted on 01 February 2006 by Mike Rudzinski

WASHINGTON D.C. – To the unassuming observer, the Capitol bears its usual mid-January ambiance. Congress is not in session, the ground is a mix between wet and cold and tourists make their way up and down the streets that are the foundations of our nation. Popularity: 6% [?] Continue Reading

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