Truth’s Long Journey When Bella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth in 1843 after being sold and bought four times, suffering decades of enslavement, beatings, rapes, whippings, harsh physical labor, and violent punishment, she was inscribed with a new...
This past Saturday there was a gathering of folks concerned about Violence in our City. The retreat was held at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church where outside there is a very prominent display of white crosses representing all those who were killed by violence in...
UPON THIS ROCK Eucharistic Revival Father Don Farnan Jun 6 The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is initiating a three-year Eucharistic revival this month to encourage Catholics and others to grow closer to Jesus through holy communion. The effort...
May turns to June, schools close and pools open, baseball diamonds promise fields of dreams, lake activity multiplies and amplifies, summer vacations begin, and children frolic in an age of innocence. As George and Ira Gershwin wrote, “Summertime and the livin’ is...
