By Nick Blaylock– I recently reread the story of Joseph in the Old Testament of the Bible. If you are not familiar with the story, please read it (Genesis 37-45)…
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By Jean Welch Hill– The mass shooting in Las Vegas left most of us in a state of stunned disbelief. Senseless violence is always a shock, particularly when it results…
By Deacon Scott Dodge– Most days I pray the Rosary either driving to or from work. On weekends I often pray it when I go for a walk. I make…
By Jim Larson– “We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public… Literacy in science will enrich a person’s life.” …
By Gary Topping– In April, 1963, Dr. King was one of the leaders of demonstrations in Birmingham against Alabama’s segregation laws. Although a judge had issued an order prohibiting such…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Speaking to the United States Congress two years ago in the Fall of 2015, Pope Francis cited Dorothy Day as an American “who shaped fundamental values…
By Jean Welch Hill- In light of the apparently endless stream of social media posts vilifying one person, cause, thing, or another, and the disconcerting impacts something as innocuously named…
By Deacon Scott Dodge Like many 20th century converts to the Catholic Church, reading Thomas Merton’s The Seven Story Mountain was instrumental in my conversion. It would be an exaggeration…
By Jim Larson “Each son or daughter of a given country has a mission, a personal and social responsibility.” The powerful opening statement from Pope Francis’ 2015 address to Congress…
By Gary Topping On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln set the slaves free by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, right? Uh, wrong. The date is right, but in fact the…