Editorial — On Unity
In the United States and in the Catholic Church, the notion of unity is significant. We are, of course, states united in one nation….
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Editorial – Health of body and spirit
We’ve heard it said all our lives, and those of us who have more sand in the bottom of life’s hour-glass than at the…
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Editorial – Facing slavery
400 years ago, the first African slaves in the United States arrived in Virginia. For the next 246 or so years, nearly every institution…
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Editorial – Shaping today’s children
We’ve bought loose-leaf paper, composition books, markers and the like. We’ve agonized over the pencil selection — hopeful they’ll withstand the abuse of our…
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Editorial – ‘Does God love the illegals?’
A reader called The Record a couple of weeks ago to ask this question: “Does God love the illegals?” By “illegals,” the caller was…
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Editorial — Need may continue to grow
The 50th anniversary of Sister Visitor Center this year is cause for celebration and concern. Since 1969, women religious have led efforts to aid…
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Editorial — Called to be patriots
Our national anthem may be the only one in the world that ends in a question. That’s just the first verse, of course. Francis…
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Editorial — Protect children at the border
Some people are comparing the Customs and Border Protection detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border to concentration camps, a comparison that raises eyebrows and…
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Editorial — We must put the last first
Calling on the “Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Way,” Pope Francis entreated the intercession of the Blessed Mother in his message for World…
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Editorial — Take hope and comfort
When the decades begin to pile up and the sand at the top of the hour glass seems to flee more quickly to the…
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