Dear Reader,

Thank you for picking up this issue of The Fenwick Review. Life on campus has been somewhat slow lately; as school work piles up and daylight falls away, Holy Cross becomes somewhat less exciting. Is this for better or for worse? Well, we’ll leave that up to you.

In this edition however, we’ve done something we rarely do: respond directly to The Spire, the official student newspaper on campus. Why have we elected to do so, you ask? The topic The Review seems to gravitate to in each of our issues came up: abortion. We see the problem of abortion as a unique — indeed, the preeminent — evil of our contemporary world. This is why one of the few articles we would never publish is one supporting abortion. Because of this issue’s importance, we saw it necessary to provide two seperate perspectives in response. We must be especially mindful of abortion during this season of Advent, as we await the coming of our yet unborn Lord. Otherwise, we offer you a bevy of other articles, spanning from campus events to geopolitics.

As this will be our last issue of the semester, we want to take the opportunity now to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May this be a time of peace, joy, and love, centered around the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ. We will keep you and your families in our prayers, and we ask that you keep all of our staff in yours.

Sincerely,

Andrew Buck & John Pietro, Co-Editors-in-Chief