During a Catholic Messenger Conversations podcast last week, Bishop Thomas Zinkula responded to an observation that the year 2020 lacks …Read More
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Category: Editorials
Focus on empathy, not blame
A letter mailed to The Catholic Messenger last week placed blame for the coronavirus pandemic on people whose behavior and …Read More
Suffer for a little while longer
Some seven weeks after our nation pressed the pause button on life as we knew it, our restlessness may be …Read More
Workers are essential, not expendable
Until the coronavirus crisis, how many of us thought about or prayed for laborers in food-processing plants, farm workers in …Read More
Sacrifice for the healers
Brigades of face mask makers have formed in parishes and small faith groups throughout the Diocese of Davenport to protect …Read More
Spiritual Communion
“May you live in interesting times” is an ancient curse which refers to periods in history that are filled with …Read More
Restore voting rights
Rusty Boruff served time for burglary, turned to God to redeem his life and now leads One Eighty, an organization …Read More