My former diocese, the Diocese of Sioux City, has one stellar Bishop. My aunts refer to Bishop Walker Nickless and Pope Benedict as the “Nick and Benny” show so I knew Bishop Nickless must be doing a stellar job. The one thing I have been most impressed with has been his willingness to [...]
In what should not have been a surprise, reporters were shocked at Florida’s All – Everything quarterback Tim Tebor when he announced that he was a virgin and was saving himself for marriage. It caused me to reflect on the fact that this has gone from an expectation to being as rare as a [...]
Without too much fanfare, Fr. Jenkins has torpedoed Notre Dame’s standing as a Catholic Institution. Yes, there were protests and a few million of withdrawn support, but overall the Catholic community has failed to hold itself to its own standards of ethics and morality.
Here, in Dubuque, Iowa, one of the two Catholic colleges invited [...]
Earlier this month, the city of Dubuque announced an agreement with the owners of Dubuque’s soon to be former strip club, “The Office.” The agreement is for $30000, The Office will close on July 1, 2009 and will never open an adult entertainment facility there again. Questions have been raised by the Telegraph [...]
In a completely unscientific, informal poll, the vast majority of people I have talked with are opposed to gay marriage but weren’t willing to sign a petition for fear of being labeled as someone committing hate crimes. After all, sexual orientation is a protected class in Iowa and anyone who may have their name [...]
The Alliance Defense Fund and Iowa Family Policy Center have offered free legal help to county recorder offices who wish to refrain from issuing gay marriage licenses on the basis of their personal religious belief or deeply held moral convictions. The groups have offered proposed policy language and offered to defend the policy for [...]
The impetus to my second article on my trip to Des Moines was, unfortunately, driving by Wahlert High School in Dubuque, Iowa. Somewhere around noon on Earth Day there were a couple of dozen kids roaming around the grounds of the high school with their green shirts on presumably picking up trash to [...]
I know a lot of the discussion this weekend about Twitter has been about Ashton Kutcher and Oprah and their additions to the entire Twitter-verse. There will not be any regurgitation of those stories, but it did give me the springboard for my first report on last week’s trip to Des Moines.
Whether Twitter and [...]
