by Zach Dawes Jr | Jul 5, 2022 | Feature-, News
The political views and position on social issues for most U.S. Catholics are not significantly influenced by church leadership or official doctrine, according to a report published June 2 by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 27, 2022 | News
The Supreme Court of the U.S. declared that there is not a constitutional right to abortion in its June 24 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, effectively overturning Roe v. Wade and allowing each state to enact its own laws regulating abortion. Justice Samuel...
by Jack Moline | Jun 21, 2022 | Opinion
There is usually a bit of timeless wisdom that inspires these columns of mine. I will admit that the quotation that provoked this column — “Is this heaven?” — makes no sense out of context. Here is a link to a video of a little more than seven minutes that...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 21, 2022 | News
The number of U.S. adults who say they believe in God reached an all-time low of 81% in 2022, according to a Gallup report published June 17. This is five-points below the previous low in 2014, and it is 17 points below the all-time high of 98%, the level of belief...
by Justin Cox | Jun 20, 2022 | Opinion
There are two types of people in the world: those who organize libraries and those who do not. I am of the latter group. Forever doomed with an incurable affliction to accumulate crisp bound pages attached to busted spines without a system to categorize any of them. I...