They broke a pattern.  For over a century, nearly every man who had been elected successor of St Peter ...

Americans acknowledge their country is changing. Many welcome it with open arms, hoping only to increase the pace of the ...

When I was younger, I used to be confused with all the different Mother Marys (plural) there were. I didn’t ...

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” - St. ...

What do you think is the single greatest spiritual and emotional problem facing college students? Loneliness? Actually, that’s a very ...

World poverty is one of the pressing issues of modernity. Now, where you were born is not up to you; ...

Think of the first time you walked into the Mount’s Chapel of the Immaculate Conception or any large Catholic cathedral. ...

What is the purpose of architecture? Is it merely to facilitate an indoor space for human beings to use? Or, ...

Discovered in 1805 by a French priest the 'grotto' at Mount St. Mary's is ground zero for a form of ...

The question of the permissibility of abortion stands at the intersection of a multitude of ontological, ethical, legal, religious, and ...

I hopped on the bus at 2am, and after a sleepy flight to Tel Aviv and a musical bus ride ...

As I do almost every night Monday through Thursday, I head to the dorm room where Night Prayer, or Compline ...

Morning Light Claire Doll Sometimes, I think the sun rises just because it loves the color of a pink-lemonade sky ...

Dear Reader, Thank you for picking up your fourth issue of The Brownson Record! In 2021, amidst the early creation ...

Perhaps many historians one day will look upon 2022 as a significant moment in our era. We may reasonably claim ...

“God overturned Roe v. Wade on your birthday,” a friend texted me on June 24th. She knew this was a ...

In Leo Strauss’ critique of Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political, Strauss takes aim at what Schmitt sees as the ...

“... cursed the ground because of you; in toil of it all days of your life; thorns and thistles it ...

Labor is a fact of life that few think about beyond the particulars of the work in front of them. ...

Through the Gate, to the Heart Stephen McGinley ‏‏‎ ‎ Mastering technicity avails me not; Enfeebling sterility, with thumbs all ...

Dear Reader, Thank you for picking up your third issue of The Brownson Record! I have found it a tremendous ...

Origin stories explain first things. Superpowers are sprung from unlikely sources. Freighting a pile-of-rocks or a hole-in-the-ground with extravagant properties ...

On April 20, Executive Director of Communications Donna Klinger shared that Bryan Zygmont, Ph.D., will be starting as dean of ...

In his recently released book Common Good Constitutionalism, Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule puts forward, as an alternative to ...

Throughout most of the world, Labor Day is celebrated on May 1 in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot, which occurred ...

The traditional signs of spring — blooming flowers, warmer weather, occasional showers — are ever present in the city of ...

With sorrow and tenderness, the passing of Dr. John Donovan, the emeritus professor and former chair of the philosophy department ...

The Mount St. Mary’s University administration has rescinded an invitation to Dr. Simone Kolysh to deliver a lecture previously scheduled ...

The Mount St. Mary’s University Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Human Services and the Mount’s chapter of Alpha Kappa ...

What do the towns of Stockbridge, Vermont, Emmitsburg, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan have in common? They all remember the presence ...

Today marks an important event in the history of Mount St. Mary’s University—the inaugural issue of The Brownson Record. It ...

The invasion of Ukraine on February 24th may not have been entirely unexpected, but it still came rightly as a ...

If a non-believer were to begin his research of the Christian story with the Gospel of Luke, he might understandably ...

For the past several years, Father Patrick Mary, a Franciscan of the Eternal Word, served Mount St. Mary’s University students ...

“Lord, you are the fullness of life, of holiness and of joy. Fill our days and nights with the love ...