Conservative Student News

What exactly does it mean to be a seminarian?  Obviously, most people know that a seminarian is a man preparing for the priesthood, but what does preparing for priesthood actually look like?  Does it mean prayer and studies all day?  And if not, what else does a seminarian do? 

Mel Gibson’s controversial Passion of the Christ has been a hot topic of conversation around St. Thomas.  While many students thought it was a moving and well-portrayed New Testament excerpt, others apparently agreed with the view that this film is anti-Semitic.  This latter view is unfounded, misguided, and just plain wrong.

Today in class I was pleasantly surprised to see a gent over to my left wearing a t-shirt displaying a red circle “NO” sign imposed over a cross with the words “Bad Religion” above it.  When I mentioned it to a friend, he chuckled and mentioned that “Bad Religion” was a great band, and that the shirt was from their hit album, Suffer. 

Although several horses are still kept at Rancho Del Cielo, the burro, Wendy, is the only animal original to the Ranch. Wendy’s pasture is enclosed by a long wooden fence that Reagan built.

My early childhood memories are few and far between, but the ones I do have are clear and meaningful. One such memory is of an event that occurred when I was four years old – I remember running down the rows of a strawberry patch on a warm summer afternoon waving an orange row-marker flag and yelling, “President Reagan, President Reagan!” as loudly as my little lungs could manage. I felt certain that my demonstration would convince all of the other berry-pickers to re-elect Reagan for President that fall.

Katie Kieffer and Brittany Larson (St. Olaf) tour Washington D.C. while learning more about ‘New Millennium’ generation voters during the NASS Summit.

Washington D.C. – the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) met with youth leaders from across the U.S. on Feb.17 for the 2004 NASS New Millennium Young Voters Summit.

Bravo!

After reading the St. Thomas Standard (and a well worthwhile reading) here are some comments: It is very intellectually stimulating, thought provoking, inspirational and a cause for reflective thinking and self-awareness. It is rekindling the flame of conscientious awareness in the community.

I am also pleased to see that you have chosen a quality artist, and I would love to see more of her work (hint, hint).

Susan Gehring

Standards – they come in innumerable forms from dress codes, to grading scales, to quality control measures, and they affect everything we do.  C. S. Lewis even tries to show in his “moral argument” that there is an objective moral law written on the heart of every man whereby he knows what is objectively right and wrong regardless of whether he chooses to follow it. 

Whether you liked the late Sen. Paul Wellstone or not, one quality liberals and conservatives could both admire about him was his honesty.  Sen. Wellstone always did what he thought was right and never changed his views even if he thought the majority of Americans didn’t agree with him or if a special interest group told him to change positions.  Sen. John Kerry is Sen. Wellstone’s polar opposite.