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-Mary Szromba | Wednesday, April 1, 2020
I’ll admit, it’s been a real pain to transition to online classes and to keep up with ever-changing deadlines. I recently returned to my apartment in South Bend in an attempt to boost my productivity, but I’m not sure it’s had any effect. My parents are also working from home where they have to consistently
Mary Szromba | Wednesday, February 26, 2020
“We’re an entitlement nation. We were born that way. We’re a country that came to another country with people on it and went, ‘Yeah I think we’ll have that. Yeah that’ll be nice.’” In 2012, Jon Stewart said the above quote during a debate with Bill O’Reilly. He was making a joke, but the statement
Mary Szromba | Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Watching Donald Trump stumble his way through his presidency has been a fascinating and depressing experience. How has a man who lacks intelligence, experience and political instincts managed not to destroy his own presidency yet? It seems like he is incapable of stringing a coherent sentence together when it isn’t scripted. How was he still
Jackie O'Brien and Mary Szromba | Thursday, January 30, 2020
Fellow columnist Brennan Buhr’s piece published Monday, “The twilight zone,” is a sorry misunderstanding of what it means to be a Catholic university. While Mr. Buhr is relatively accurate in describing the position of the Catholic Church with respect to abortion, he goes 10 steps too far in declaring that all students running for student
Jackie O'Brien and Mary Szromba | Wednesday, January 29, 2020
This past week, fellow columnist Vincent Mallet advocated for the right of private, religious schools to receive equal access to publicly funded scholarship programs. In concluding his discussion of this challenging constitutional issue, Mallet states, “the Supreme Court should affirm that religious schools cannot be legally discriminated against on the basis of their religious character.”
Mary Szromba | Wednesday, January 15, 2020
One of President Trump’s major campaign promises was an end to prolonged conflicts in the Middle East. “I’m the guy that didn’t want to go to war,” he said in 2016, and his anti-deployment stance likely won him the votes of those living in counties with high military casualty rates. For a while the president
Mary Szromba | Wednesday, December 4, 2019
“If it is between Donald Trump and a ham sandwich, I will vote for a ham sandwich — and so will the rest of America.” Over the course of this holiday weekend I have had to listen to this phrase from my father no less than 20 times. He first proclaimed it when he found
Mary Szromba | Wednesday, November 13, 2019
In last week’s column “What is Religion?,” what seemed like a thoughtful, intelligent exploration of what it means to be religious, how modern Catholics fit into society and what increasing secularization means for Christians today, ended up being a list of ways religious Americans have been victimized and persecuted by the left. I believe it
Mary Szromba | Wednesday, October 30, 2019
I must admit I am completely dumbfounded by Lindsey Graham. When I decided to write about him this week, I was hoping I’d be able to come up with some sort of argument about his politics or his recent behavior, but I am at a loss. Instead, I am only left with questions: What happened
Mary Szromba | Wednesday, October 9, 2019
In 1989, there were 198 billionaires in the world. Ten years later in 1999, that number increased to 465 – that’s about 2.3 times more. Today, there are 2,153 billionaires. That’s 4.6 times more billionaires in the same number of years. Meanwhile, almost 600 million people live in extreme poverty around the world. Regardless of