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Columnists

To forgive and to protect

By Elizabeth Foss

I wonder: in order to forgive, do we have to forget? In order to respect the dignity of a person who has hurt us, do we have to let him or her back into the space where they harmed us in the first place?

Columnists

From Siege2Surge: Daybreak

By Soren Johnson
The “grinder” is a stretch of black asphalt familiar to every aspiring Navy SEAL who is lucky enough to be accepted into the BUD/S boot camp. On it he does grueling daily physical training (PT) evolutions, hits the wall of his limits, and continues on. His trainers berate and indiscriminately punish him, and if he […]
Columnists

After Charlottesville

By Russell Shaw
Amid the cries of alarm in the wake of the tragic violence in Charlottesville, one unanswered question stands out: After all these years — all this bitterness and anguish and even bloodshed — what, if anything, can be done to end racism in the United States once and for all? Court decisions, laws, programs, institutions […]
Pope Francis

Pope arrives in Colombia to help promote healing

By David Agren

Pope Francis arrived in Colombia Sept. 6 for a five-day visit to promote reconciliation in a deeply Catholic country scarred and reticent to offer forgiveness after decades of war.

Local

Community cafe provides food, friendship for elderly poor

By Dennis Sadowski
PORT CLINTON, Ohio — Bow tie pasta with Chardonnay cheese sauce, fresh focaccia topped with herbs, a salad of fresh locally grown greens and made-from-scratch bread pudding aren’t the usual fare for people in need of a free meal.   At Bistro 163 in this lakefront town 38 miles east of Toledo, such tasty delights […]
Movies

Birth of the Dragon

Fictional retelling of a real 1964 kung-fu confrontation between future martial arts legend Bruce Lee (Philip Ng) and an older Chinese master (Yu Xia). Set in San Francisco, and adapted from an article by Michael Dorgan, the film hits all the usual chopsocky notes, but dully. 

Local

Life in a country parish

By Zoey Maraist

Catholics share the challenges and joys of living in the diocese’s most rural areas.

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Local

Bishop Braxton to speak on religion and the racial divide in the U.S.

Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville, Ill., will give two talks at The Catholic University of America, 640 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, Sept. 21. The bishop will share his personal experiences of the new awareness of the racial divide and the need for Catholics to address it during “The Catholic Church and the Racial Divide in […]

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