Following up on his encyclical emphasizing care for all of creation, Pope Francis met last week with city mayors from …Read More
Category: Opinion
Church treatment of LGBT members
To the Editor: The story goes that St. Francis took one of his companions to give a sermon in the …Read More
RFRA recognizes conflict
To the Editor: The letter in The Catholic Messenger for July 9, “Secularism gone amuck,” was similar to much Catholic …Read More
No right to kill the unborn
To the Editor: We human beings seem to have forgotten that God is God! We also have forgotten that his …Read More
Climate change consequences are for real
By Fr. Bud Grant According to Pew Research only 13 percent of Americans deny climate change entirely, 11 percent saying …Read More
Shortchanging Iowa’s kids
Some of today’s elementary and high school students will be serving in our state legislature 25 years from now, hopefully …Read More
Protect working families
To the Editor: Tell Congress to protect working families. 2013 poverty data released last September shows more than 45 million …Read More