When Nora Dvorak read about the abandonment of healthy newborns, “I had a physical reaction like nothing I had before,” …Read More
Respect for life begins with empathy
Category: Editorials
Who is my neighbor?
Pope Francis challenges us to reflect on and respond to the question “Who is my neighbor?” in his new encyclical …Read More
Pandemic perseverance
Runners prepare months in advance to run a marathon and develop strategies to get them through the demanding 26.2-mile event. …Read More
Respect life, and one another
In his encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“Gospel of Life”), published in 1995, Pope John Paul II cited the Second Vatican …Read More
Hunger has become a middle class problem
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to peel away our society’s “protective layers” to expose challenges and crises, the latest being the …Read More
Humility Homes and Services: ‘A little voice of Christ’
Several years after the Congregation of the Humility of Mary moved its motherhouse from Ottumwa to Davenport some of its …Read More
Forming our consciences
Campaign ads inundate our email inboxes, Facebook pages, text messages, Twitter accounts, TV screens and radio stations as the 2020 …Read More
