BELMONT — Belmont Abbey College recently launched an Abbey Advantage Scholarship Program, designed to provide financial assistance for high-achieving high school seniors from North Carolina. Leveraging the students’ state and federal grants first, the college will award an institutional merit award to meet the full $21,500 cost of tuition of the 2025-2026 academic year.
The Abbey Advantage Scholarship is available to first-time, full-time non-athletes pursuing a traditional major. Other qualifications apply.
For details, visit www.bac.edu.
In two events on Nov. 7, Catholics learned about the complex details of bioethics with Nikolas Nikas, Catholic attorney and president of the Bioethics Defense Fund, an advocacy group that promotes Church teachings on life.
In the morning, Nikas spoke to Belmont Abbey College students and professors on how to make moral decisions on end-of-life care in a talk sponsored by the college’s philosophy, theology and biology departments.
That evening, Catholic healthcare workers and legal professionals attended Nikas’ presentation on law and morality at St. Patrick Cathedral. The talk examined how the absence of natural law in modern law has allowed bioethical and moral issues from abortion, eugenics and gender ideology to become tolerated in the legal and medical fields. The evening event was hosted by Catholic Health Professionals of Charlotte.
— Mike FitzGerald