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Boston University Florence and Chafetz Hillel House. BU’s Hillel and Catholic Center announced a new learning cohort that will teach about the Jewish and Catholic faiths. RACHEL FEINSTEIN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU Hillel, Catholic Center offer $300 stipend for interfaith learning cohort

Mary Goetz January 28, 2025
Boston University’s Hillel and Catholic Center are encouraging students to apply to a new, ten-session learning cohort open to all students that focuses on Jewish and Catholic faith, offering free meals and a $300 stipend to enrollees.
The entrance to the polling location for Precinct 10 inside Kilachand Hall. Policy stances and historical significance are motivating Massachusetts residents to vote in the 2024 presidential election. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Historical stakes, key issues motivate Boston voters during presidential election

Samantha Genzer November 5, 2024
Massachusetts voters turned out on Election Day, motivated by historic stakes and issues in party loyalty, women’s rights and the candidates’ character.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Divine Politik: Leftism and Catholicism can and should coexist 

Caroline McCord April 21, 2022

As I write this, it is midway through Holy Week, the most sacred time of the year for practicing Christians. During this week, we reflect on the Paschal Mystery — the life, suffering, death and resurrection...

Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Divine Politik: Population control isn’t progressive

Caroline McCord February 24, 2022
We know the main culprits of environmental ruin — think Exxon and Chevron, which also saw unprecedented capital gains during the last fiscal year — and it is not a traditional Catholic family with seven kids in Guatemala. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Divine Politik: The Little Way, a hopeful New Year’s remedy to injustice

Caroline McCord January 23, 2022
No, I cannot save the world single handedly, but I can practice what St. Therese named “The Little Way” — a method of achieving good through profound simplicity
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Divine Politik: The truth behind the current labor movement

Caroline McCord October 28, 2021
The real truth behind the labor shortage and unofficial general strike happening in America is a story of hope, grit and the intrinsic belief that workers deserve rights and dignity.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

​​Minority Report: The shame of the bishops

Lincoln Son Currie September 2, 2021
I implore the bishops not to draft a document that would turn Christ’s body into a political weapon.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: How we reward ‘peace’ efforts can be problematic

Max Ferrandino February 10, 2021
Peace is hard to define and even harder to celebrate. Giving a prize for peace is difficult regardless of what criteria you use.
Though a traditionally American holiday, Thanksgiving has become widely adopted by other countries such as Japan and Brazil. COURTESY OF JILL WELLINGTON VIA PIXABAY

Language professors discuss Thanksgiving traditions abroad

Nancy Jiang November 30, 2020
Every fourth Thursday of November, Americans flock to their dinner tables to celebrate Thanksgiving, but it's become widely adopted in other countries with different twists within each culture.
Yvonne Tang

Dear Men: New Supreme Court will endanger non-males in US

Yvonne Tang November 6, 2020
Though conservatives poke fun at us, calling us “fake feminists” for not supporting all women because of our distaste for Barrett, we know her confirmation unleashes a future filled with dismay.
Joel Herbert

Diamonds and Rust: Columbus — The Myth, the Monster, the Man

Joel Herbert October 8, 2020
Centralizing blame on Columbus for all of the terrible things that came in his wake shifts accountability away from whole governments of people who have, and continue to, commit error.
Boston University College Republicans released a statement on Instagram denouncing a Twitter thread by Ibram X. Kendi, director and founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU College Republicans receive backlash over statement against Kendi tweets

Nathan Lederman October 4, 2020
Student organizations and individuals on campus have expressed both outrage against and support for Ibram X. Kendi, director and founder of the BU Center for Antiracist Research, after a series of his tweets garnered attention online.
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