By Barb Arland-Fye The Catholic Messenger DAVENPORT — Writing in the margins of textbooks is as old as, well, the …Read More
Thoughts from the margins of a 500-year-old book
Category: archives
Clearance wreaths prove valuable
By Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger Earlier this year Father Jeffry Belger visited his alma mater, St. Meinrad School of …Read More
Youth ministry conference inspires diocesan participants
By Anne Marie Amacher The Catholic Messenger Several youth ministers from the Davenport Diocese networked with each other and ministers …Read More
How to fight the ‘gimmie’ disease this Advent season
By Judith Costello Advent seems to be the season for an outbreak of a terrible disease called the “Gimmies.” “Gimmie …Read More
An Advent call for racial justice
Those of us who are white may have assumed that the Civil Rights Movement of a half-century ago did indeed …Read More
Purgatory not absolute
To the Editor: With his absolute statements about purgatory, Father Corey Close (Nov. 20, The Catholic Messenger) has locked God …Read More
Voting issues
To the Editor: In his letter published Nov. 27, 2014, Larry Schroeder asks why a Catholic should have struggled with …Read More