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Thursday, December 06, 2018
From trading baseball cards to trading babies
As a child, my understanding of the concept of trade was limited. Trade was something you did with baseball cards. If you were a knucklehead like me, you traded the… Read More
Friday, November 16, 2018
The indispensable role of the news editor
One of the main reasons a diocesan newspaper exists is to be a community newspaper, the go-to publication for a thriving Catholic community. Such a newspaper fosters unity among Catholics… Read More
Friday, November 16, 2018
Writing, reporting, serving the church
As I leave the Archdiocese of Omaha to take a new job – with great gratitude on my part, still in the Catholic press – I have been given the… Read More
Friday, November 16, 2018
This Thanksgiving, take time to be grateful
I just started reading “Community and Growth” by Jean Vannier, the founder of the L’Arche communities. Doing so has reminded me of the importance of community and the fundamental virtue… Read More
Friday, November 16, 2018
Gospel of Life Award winner: Jack Odgaard
I first met Jack Odgaard in 2010, when I was a third-year law student at the University of Nebraska College of Law. I was with my friend, Jeff Kanger. In… Read More
Friday, November 16, 2018
On not being a vegetable
Of all the dilemmas classified under end-of-life issues, the most divisive even for Catholics has been the treatment of people diagnosed as being in a “vegetative state.” The phrase has… Read More
Friday, November 16, 2018
Stephen Hawking: great scientist, lousy theologian
Stephen Hawking was a great theoretical physicist and cosmologist, perhaps the most important since Einstein. It is only right that his remains have been interred alongside those of Isaac Newton… Read More
Friday, November 02, 2018
Preparing for Election Day on Nov. 6
It’s never too late to prepare for Election Day! This is as true for the less appreciated and underrated midterm elections as it is for a politically heightened presidential election… Read More
Friday, November 02, 2018
A public church, not a partisan church
The temptation to ally the church with a particular political party and its program is a perennial one, it seems. When that temptation is not resisted, it invariably leads to… Read More
Friday, November 02, 2018
The rush to publish
I wonder if I am alone in worrying about a side effect of our two most recent public discussions of sexual abuse. I mean of course the confirmation of Justice… Read More