Posts by Tom Hoopes

Students say it is no coincidence that Benedictine College was chosen to lead the March for Life in the year of its consecration. “I think Mary has definitely had a hand in

What’s the best answer to Christmas sentimentality? The Christmas season liturgy. In the days that follow Christmas, the Church brings us the slaughter of innocents, the first martyr, and more. Christmas isn’t

It’s happening again. The streets of Atchison, Kansas, are lit up like a firefly convention. People are dashing madly around to Christmas shopping, Christmas concerts, Christmas parties and Christmas movies. No matter

In Benedictine College’s Guadalupe Chapel, President Stephen D. Minnis gave certificates and medals to students consecrating themselves to Mary. More than 300 students at Benedictine College will consecrate themselves to Mary in

Religious people are the ones who are so insistent on our faith-based worldview that we reject scientific fact to preserve our comfortable fiction. Right? That’s the charge that is often made. And

Call it “The Hard Way of Pope Francis.” Here are three major challenges of Pope Francis that I expect hit raw nerves in more Americans than just me. 1. At all costs,

I work at Our Lady’s college — you know, that college with a long history in the Midwest, a winning football tradition, a memorable fight song, and a beautiful Lourdes grotto that

This Saturday Sept. 7 Pope Francis has asked the Universal Church to pray and fast on that day to honor Mary’s birthday (Sept. 8) and to fervently beseech the Lord for Peace

Happy Assumption Day. My wife just consecrated herself to Mary today (using Fr. Michael Gaitley’s book) , and I’m preparing to do the same (on Sept. 8, along with Benedictine College). A

Katherine Bauman reads at Rio. EWTN photo. I just caught up with Katherine Bauman, who I know as a junior at Benedictine College in Kansas and native of Denver, but who more