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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Editorial – Care for creation
On Monday, we observed the third Earth Day since Pope Francis released his encyclical “Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home” The document,…
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Editorial – New Life in Prison
Two burgundy french braids with brunette roots end at her grief-wracked shoulders. Shaking with suppressed weeping, her shoulders are clad in yellow scrubs stamped…
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Editorial – Reasons for hope
Let’s face it, given what’s going on in the world — in our city, nation and state for that matter — it’s easy to…
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