Jailers didn’t suspect anything unusual when they placed an inmate in his cell. He didn’t create a disturbance so his …Read More
Category: Editorials
Putting the works of mercy to the test
A Davenport alderman’s letter to the editor in the Quad-City Times serves as a challenge to Catholics this Lenten season …Read More
Marriage: a sacrament in progress
At the suggestion of their parish priest, Marie and Norbert Hammes got married on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1940, because …Read More
Compromise needed for Iowa Medicaid
Iowa’s most vulnerable citizens — children and adults with low incomes and/or disabilities — are at the mercy of a …Read More
Faithful citizens: it’s time to caucus!
On Feb. 1 Iowans have the privilege of exercising their vote in the first-in-the nation caucus. Pundits debate whether Iowa …Read More
Life with Dignity
The “Death with Dignity” movement has arrived in Iowa. Promoters of legislation that would allow terminally ill Iowans to end …Read More
Ask ICE to show mercy
Does it really take seven, armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to apprehend an undocumented woman and four children? …Read More