By Chris McCormick Pries By One in four families sitting in the pews has a member dealing with mental illness. …Read More
Category: Guest Opinion
Matthew’s mosaic Jesus
By Patrick Schmadeke Sometime around 80 CE, roughly a decade after the Romans destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem, the Gospel of …Read More
Teen siblings offer insights on school massacre
By Fr. Bud Grant I spent July 4th with the most patriotic book I’ve read since “Johnny Got His Gun.” …Read More
How we can rejoice and be glad
By Corinne Winter As is often the case with magisterial documents, one may hear the Latin and English titles of …Read More
Casualties of Iowa’s budget priorities emerge
Six weeks ago, Tom Chapman of the Iowa Catholic Conference said the ongoing impact of the state’s tax reform bill …Read More
A year in review
By Patrick Schmadeke The task of theology is to put our capacity for faith and our capacity to reason in …Read More
Are things getting better down there?
By Dr. Mark Blaser I didn’t give this question any thought 25 years ago when my partner Randy Cardott, MD, …Read More













