Category: People

By Barb Arland-Fye Editor Father Mike Spiekermeier’s homily on what we say at the time of good-byes moved me because …Read More

By Barb Arland-Fye Editor We will listen to a reading from Acts of the Apostles (2: 1-11) during Mass on …Read More

By Barb Arland-Fye Editor Fuzzy goslings tottered across the Mississippi River Trail in Bettendorf as I approached on my bicycle, …Read More

By Barb Arland-Fye Editor A quote from the young wife of a Ukrainian soldier holed up in a steel plant …Read More

By Barb Arland-Fye The Catholic Messenger A pilgrimage to Ireland, the “Emerald Isle,” has been among my deepest desires since …Read More

By Barb Arland-Fye Editor Outside the ice rink, I locked eyes with my son Colin, who was in the rink …Read More

By Barb Arland-Fye Nine-year-old Sophia Garcia of Moline, Illinois, greeted Sister Norma Pimentel when she arrived at the airport the …Read More