Columns
Movie ‘a wonderful gift to challenge us’
I pray that the blessings of this Lenten Season be abundant in our lives.
Risen Savior brings peace, love, joy
This is Bishop James P. Powers Easter 2019 message.
A letter from Fr. Adam Laski
Fr. Adam Laski is currently studying Canon Law in Ottawa, Canada.(Submitted photo) Fr. Adam Laski writes about his [...]
Lent: Tweaking? Or transformation?
What does it take to get excited about Lent?
‘Exceptions’ and undermining the moral law
Whenever we make small exceptions to universal moral rules, we shouldn’t be surprised that the rules themselves can be quickly undermined.
Much to celebrate
February is Catholic Press Month, and as the editor of a Catholic newspaper, it’s my job to write a column celebrating the Catholic press.
Msgr. Meulemans a model of mentorship
Nemo dat quod non habet. This Latin phrase has shown up several times in the last six months. The first time occurred in a talk at our annual seminary retreat in August. I then saw it in Timothy Cardinal Dolan’s book “Priests of the Third Millennium” this fall.
Justice and peace for Jayme
Sharing advice as a fellow kidnapping survivor, Elizabeth Smart has spoken out on Jayme Closs’s courageous escape to freedom and what lies ahead. In one interview on NBC’s The Today Show, she said, “As big as this feels right now, it doesn’t have to define her life,” and added “You don’t go back to the old normal, there’s only a new normal.”
The runaway train of IVF
In November, a Chinese scientist named He Jankui (known to his associates as “JK”) claimed he had successfully produced the world’s first gene-edited human babies using “gene surgery.” The twin girls, he said, were born somewhere in China with a modified gene that makes them immune to infection from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.