Thirteen years ago, following the Mass of the Lord’s Supper during Holy Week, a tornado destroyed the 130-year-old St. Patrick …Read More
Category: Editorials
A Lenten checkup
An intercession from Morning Prayer during the fifth week of Lent asks God to “Help us to do what is …Read More
Flood detours
For some of us, spring flooding is a nuisance; detours add minutes to our travels to and from work, school, …Read More
We need a ‘conversion of heart’
Vandals worked under cover of darkness to spray paint racist messages on an Iowa City church that serves a multicultural …Read More
‘Blessed are the peacemakers’
A stack of passports sat atop a security officer’s desk in the crowded reception room where visitors waited for an …Read More
Penguins get the message
A “wintery” mixture of weather, as TV meteorologists call it, brewed outside my house. Inside, my husband Steve and I …Read More
Focus on the good news
A member of The Catholic Messenger’s Editorial Board, weary of the divisiveness in our world and the media’s tendency to …Read More