The Catholic Church is one of the oldest institutions still surviving today, dominating Europe and the world at large for 1000 years. And while it retains only a fraction of the power it once held, it still exerts influence over 1.2 billion people. Institutions that old generally resist change, but when it comes to the recently elected Pope Francis, a crack in the Church’s firm traditionalism is already showing. Elected on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis of Buenos Aires, Argentina has a whole new outlook on the papacy. He believes...

You are not alone if you missed the latest news from Kenya. Members of Somalian Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab laid siege to the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi for four days. 67 are reported dead; 175 injured and 71 are still missing. The attack began on Sept. 21, the International Day of Peace. The group proudly claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter, citing the Kenyan military’s involvement in Somalia as their primary motivation for doing so. Most of the dead were found with horrific wounds and evidence of torture....

  Everyone has a secret or two. Maybe you have a secret crush on your good-looking Resident Assistant. Maybe you only got that good grade because you cheated. At Puget Sound, secrets don’t stay a secret for long, thanks to the University of Puget Sound Confessions Page on Facebook. With 1,042 likes at most recent count, the page has almost half as many likes as the school has students. It is run by an anonymous administrator, who links similarly anonymous confessions to Facebook from the website college-confessions.com. The confessions range...

A new school year, a new class of freshmen at Puget Sound, which means a chance to go on Passages, the three-day wilderness trip designed specifically to introduce new students to the wonders of the Pacific Northwest. Many older students fondly recall their time spent on Passages – of days spent bonding with a small group of classmates in the great outdoors. However, some students had a less than ideal experience – a sentiment often shared by those students who stayed at base camp, rather than going out on a...