By Barb Arland-Fye Edtior An email from Father Marty Goetz on Sept. 4 stirred memories of attending the canonization Mass …Read More
Category: People
Persons, places and things: Making peace with ourselves, first
By Barb Arland-Fye Editor Members of our family have discovered that peace begins a step at a time, during a …Read More
Sr. Husak taught in DeWitt
CEDAR RAPIDS — Sister Philomena Husak, RSM, a former teacher, died Aug. 19 at Hallmar Care Center after a brief …Read More
Regina principal earns Spark Award
IOWA CITY — Glenn Plummer, principal of Regina Junior/Senior High School, received the Spark Award during the virtual 2020 Innovation …Read More
Persons, places and things: With love and faith, from Mother
By Barb Arland-Fye The Catholic Messenger Father John Spiegel thinks his mother Dorothy wrote the letter addressed to him and …Read More
Derecho on deadline: Catholic Messenger has the final word
By Barb Arland-Fye The Catholic Messenger Visions of newspaper pages, not sugar plums, danced in our heads after the derecho …Read More
Persons, places and things: The ‘broken’ book
By Barb Arland-Fye Editor Some of the books in our family’s living room bookcase appear more worn out than other …Read More













