Diocesan News
- Long Grove chapels, columbarium blessed
By Anne Marie Amacher LONG GROVE – St. Ann parishioners celebrated a blessing of the columbarium, adoration chapel and reconciliation chapel Nov. 30 with Bishop [...]
- Students can apply for Ritzinger Scholarships
Applications for the Marguerite Ritzinger Scholarship of the Diocese of Davenport are being accepted now through Feb. 1. Any Catholic individual who plans to attend [...]
Features
- NCYC is ‘Signed. Sealed. Delivered.’
By Father Bill Kneemiller We are signed in our baptism, sealed by the Spirit in confirmation, and delivered by the death and resurrection of Christ. [...]
- Waiting for a baby: on Advent & adoption
By Christina Capecchi For years folks told Mike and Maria Slavik that their blue colonial-style house looked like a Christmas card. Maria would be out [...]
Opinion
- The system
Do you want to be a free, moral and creative, mature person? There’s a system for that. You get it by linking to people who [...]
- Varieties in poverty
By Frank Wessling Thanksgiving is a valuable feast. We should pause in our usual busyness and take time to appreciate it. This isn’t your mother [...]
People
- Persons, places and things: Pope calls for prayer Dec. 10
By Barb Arland-Fye Pope Francis has zero tolerance for hunger in the world and its partner in crime, food waste. Guilty as charged. I’ve thrown [...]
- Respect life poster winners
BETTENDORF — L.I.F.E. Ministry at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish conducted a poster contest during Respect Life Month in October at Lourdes Catholic School. Students [...]
