October – Respect Life Month

by Grace Klassen October is Respect Life Month and Lord knows our world needs to seize this opportunity toreintegrate respect for life in our daily lives. As a catholic, being pro-life is quintessential to myfaith and daily life. As our world questions peace and dignity, it is important to ask what does itmean to respect …

Jesus, School, and Family amidst this global pandemic

By Faith Hapka - President of CHEA Club School is back in session, covid cases are increasing, and autumn is just around the corner. Ithas been about six months since going to class in a physical classroom was allowed. Even now,some professors are choosing to remain online-only for various reasons as their family isimmunocompromised in …

Being Catholic and an Environmentalist

-Sarah Reinhardt As a Catholic in the environmental world I have already gotten raised eyebrows and lots of questions. I have had someone say to me “wow I didn’t think any Catholics cared about the environment.” This is an inaccurate, but believed conception. The more questions I was asked and the more I began to …

A Spiritual Journey in Arizona

-Alaina Driscoll Last year, as a freshman, I quickly found a home in the BisonCatholic community. I would go to Sunday Mass and various events throughout the year. However, it was not until this year, when my friends convinced me to go to the SLS/Focus conference in Phoenix Arizona from Dec. 30-Jan 2, that my eyes …

Sisters of Life

-Holly Weatherson The Sisters of Life are definitely a blessing to the Newman Community. The Sisters of Life is a religious order based in Suffern, New York, and their mission is to uphold the beauty and dignity of every human person. Simultaneously, a handful of Sisters from this order are based on college campuses in …

The Unsatisfying Pleasure of Media

-Samuel Mettler In the current digital age, we see it everyday: texting and driving is a dangerous stunt to pull off, yet 20 percent or more of the population does it often. Another study suggests that half of people are distracted by their cell phones, even though 98 percent know that it’s dangerous. Texting while …

February to the Future

-Grace Klassen This past February, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposed a plan to help end what she calls, “one of the biggest existential threats to our way of life”: climate change (Cortez February 7, 2019). She proposed The Green New Deal. Cortez calls this deal a “comprehensive agenda of economic social and racial justice” (Cortez February …

A Journey to the New Life Center

- Rachel Borgert The New Life Center is a place where people who are homeless and hurting go from merely surviving to truly thriving. The New Life Center is a nonprofit, Christian organization that serves men experiencing homelessness, helping them to go from being homeless to getting a job and having their own place. For …

Getting in the Fast Lane

-Amy Speiser Fasting is a concept that is very familiar to practicing Catholics especially during the liturgical season of Lent.  Catholics are called to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday as well as all the Fridays during Lent. One of the reasons, perhaps the most common, of why we fast is because …

Blocking Pornography? – A Response to Arizona House Bill 2444

Written Amy Speiser Recently, an excerpt in the NDSU Spectrum pointed out an article in the Huffington Post that directed attention to the proposed Arizona House Bill 2444 that would place blocking software in electronics, prohibiting the user to access pornographic content.  After reading this excerpt, the original article was easy to find with a …