Columnists
Updated: May 4th, 2012
Taking abortion challenges to prayer
JAN KAHLE
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Challenging situations at abortion clinics often need to be lifted in prayer for God’s intervention. About two weeks ago just such an incident occurred. The young woman who came seeking an abortion was working 16 hours a day to afford a better life for her and her 2-year-old child. She felt overw...
Angela Kessler
Friday, 04 May 2012
Years ago, I heard a speaker relate a story about how God constantly whispers to us, and it is up to us to listen for those whispers and act upon them. And if we don’t, He’ll get our attention another way, even if it means throwing a brick throug...
Ann Barrick
Friday, 04 May 2012
I was struggling with this month’s column when I received a phone call from a very dear friend. “Mom just left us,” Tina stated calmly. “She went peacefully.” Tina and her sisters had been caring for their mother at home, keeping her comfor...
Deacon Jim & Ann Cavera
Friday, 04 May 2012
One beautiful spring day some years ago, we came home to find a strange assortment of twigs in the arch above our front door. Thinking some trash had been blown there by the wind, we promptly brushed it down with the broom. Later that same afternoon,...
FATHER ROBERT HAAS
Friday, 04 May 2012
Most of us remember sitting at a desk when we went to school. We older ones remember a hole on the right hand side to put your inkwell. A few us might remember dipping a girl’s pigtail in the bottle of ink we kept in that well. I did it in the thir...
GEORGE WEIGEL
Friday, 04 May 2012
Given the specter of James Buchanan, the question of whether Jimmy Carter was the worst president in the history of the Republic must remain unresolved; yet there is no doubt that Carter is the worst ...
FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK
Friday, 04 May 2012
One widely-encountered idea today is that there is no black and white when it comes to morality, only a kind of “gray area.” This is often taken to mean that we really can’t know with certainty ...
TONY ROSSI, The Christophers
Wednesday, 02 May 2012
As a boy, Daniel Murphy started playing baseball through the process of elimination. He realized he was too short for basketball, too slow for soccer and he didn’t like to get hit so forget about fo...
NOTRE DAME SISTER M. VALERIE SCHNEIDER
Saturday, 07 April 2012
The weather hit 70 degrees today, and reluctantly I packed away my cross country skis as the spring equinox approaches following the winter that never was. Winter is my favorite season on the civil ca...
TONY ROSSI, The Christophers
Friday, 06 April 2012
You may have heard about a recent court case in which an Oregon couple who gave birth to a daughter with Down syndrome sued their medical center and lab for failing to detect the chromosomal abnormali...