By Anne Marie Amacher DAVENPORT — Building and maintaining community and helping neophytes (Catholics newly initiated into the church) to …Read More
Seminar focuses on guiding new Catholics
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Image on century-old lapel button is priest, not rabbi
By Barb Arland-Fye Rabbi Mark Hurvitz, a New Yorker who collects Judaic lapel buttons, discovered he’d inadvertently added a bit …Read More
Sister helps out-of-state youths improve neighborhood
By Anne Marie Amacher DAVENPORT — Throughout the summer, Sister Marilyn Schierbrock, CHM, works with youth from across the United …Read More
RAGBRAI pedals through diocese
By Celine Klosterman Catholics in Ottumwa, Mount Pleasant and Burlington helped feed and shelter hundreds of bicyclists July 23-25 as …Read More
Bishop Martin Amos’ schedule for August
1 CLINTON — Sisters of St. Francis jubilee Mass, Prince of Peace, 10:30 a.m. 1 KEOKUK — Installation of new pastor, All Saints, …Read More
After tragedy, couple’s ‘guardian angel’ offers strength
By Kathy Weiss A pink, hand-stamped card became both a birth announcement and funeral memento with this poignant inscription: “Benjamin …Read More
persons, places and things: Finishing the race
By Barb Arland-Fye A competitive nature and nagging leg pain left me dreading participation in a road race that draws …Read More