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Category: Features

New books outline history, modern realities of religious liberty

Posted on Aug 22, 2019Aug 21, 2019 in Features
New books outline history, modern realities of religious liberty

By Tim Walch “Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom” by Robert Louis Wilken. Yale …Read More

You have been given charisms: what does that mean?

Posted on Aug 15, 2019Aug 14, 2019 in Features
You have been given charisms: what does that mean?

By Sheila Zack Would you be surprised to learn that you have been given charisms? According to Catholic teaching, it …Read More

Spiritual direction: is it right for you?

Posted on Aug 8, 2019Aug 7, 2019 in Features
Spiritual direction: is it right for you?

By Kathy Berken When I decided to move on from The Arch, L’Arche in Clinton in 2008, I was on …Read More

Prairie Lights to host ‘Irish Iowa’ author

Posted on Aug 1, 2019Jul 31, 2019 in Features
Prairie Lights to host ‘Irish Iowa’ author

By Barb Arland-Fye Author Timothy Walch, director emeritus of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, will give a public reading of …Read More

Priestly formation program opens seminarians to God

Posted on Aug 1, 2019Jul 31, 2019 in Features
Priestly formation program opens seminarians to God

By Isaac Doucettte Over the summer, I have been in Omaha with fellow Diocese of Davenport seminarians Dominic Nguyen, Grant …Read More

Vocations promotion in Hispanic communities

Posted on Jul 25, 2019Jul 24, 2019 in Features
Vocations promotion in Hispanic communities

By Fr. Joseph Sia As vocation director I work with all communities in our diocese, but because of my experience …Read More

Using our eyes to see the good in others

Posted on Jul 25, 2019Jul 24, 2019 in Features
Using our eyes to see the good in others

By Jenna Ebener “Jesus, I see you.” Over and over, I repeated that phrase in my head to Jesus as …Read More

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