Editorial – Facing slavery
by400 years ago, the first African slaves in the United States arrived in Virginia. For the next 246 or so years, nearly every institution…
Editorials
Editorial – Shaping today’s children
byWe’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…
Editorial – ‘Does God love the illegals?’
byA reader called The Record a couple of weeks ago to ask this question: “Does God love the illegals?” By “illegals,” the caller was…
Editorial — Need may continue to grow
byThe 50th anniversary of Sister Visitor Center this year is cause for celebration and concern. Since 1969, women religious have led efforts to aid…
Editorial — Called to be patriots
byOur national anthem may be the only one in the world that ends in a question. That’s just the first verse, of course. Francis…
Editorial — Protect children at the border
bySome 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…
Editorial — We must put the last first
byCalling on the “Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Way,” Pope Francis entreated the intercession of the Blessed Mother in his message for World…
Editorial — Take hope and comfort
byWhen the decades begin to pile up and the sand at the top of the hour glass seems to flee more quickly to the…
Editorial – Care for creation
byOn Monday, we observed the third Earth Day since Pope Francis released his encyclical “Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home” The document,…
Editorial – New Life in Prison
byTwo burgundy french braids with brunette roots end at her grief-wracked shoulders. Shaking with suppressed weeping, her shoulders are clad in yellow scrubs stamped…