When their daughter Hallee announced her engagement last May, Dan and Marietta Heinen were understandably ecstatic.
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Column: Join Catholics across northeast Kansas in lighting lamps of hope
The theme of last year’s pastoral visit to the United States by Pope Benedict XVI was: “Make all things new in Christ, our hope.”
Pretty, not provocative
Modesty doesn’t have to be synonymous with frumpy.
Tragedy transformed
“Sometimes it just smacks me in the face — gosh, my child is dead,” said Church of the Ascension parishioner Jeane Crossland.
Column: We ‘mess’ with marriage at the risk of our future
Each year it’s a scene that never ceases to amaze: hundreds of Christian men, Catholic and Protestant, gathering to lift up the virtue of purity and get real about the challenges we men face in a highly sexualized culture.
Column: New catechesis program off to a great start
With more reports of job layoffs, companies going out of business, foreclosures, and seemingly limitless government bailout plans, it can be hard to maintain hope, even for the most optimistic among us.
Column: Witnesses truly blessed by loving couple’s example
There are a myriad of ways that love is shared with others, but one picture always comes to the mind of my husband, our daughter, granddaughter and myself.
Column: Jesus obscures his true identity in Mark’s Gospel
When a doctor starts his or her practice in a new town, a notice will often appear in the local newspaper to introduce the professional to the local population.
Column: What the world needs now
"We should never leave this world not having the people that we love know that we love them.”
Evangelization and Catechesis: Call to Share funds help form disciples
The Lord wants to do something significant in northeast Kansas. He is opening doors throughout our area so that more people can come to know him and live in the community of his church.