Archives - Editorials and columns 2024

Below are all the editorials and columns that ran in 2024.

• January 12, 2024

  • Editorial: Peacemaking in the New Year
  • Evangelization Outreach: New year’s resolution: don’t meditate! Let me explain
  • Guest Column: What if … we become the people God has created us to be?
  • Twenty Something: Saluting the chroniclers: put 2024 on paper

• January 19, 2024

  • Editorial: Events offer a reminder we must continue protecting life
  • Joyful Witness: God puts the right people in our lives for just the right season
  • That All May Be One: Like a priest and a pope, let us pray that ‘all may be one’
  • Our Works of Charity: Join us in mission to end poverty and uphold human dignity
  • Reflection: Despite freeing of captives, suffering of Church in Nicaragua continues

• January 26, 2024

  • Editorial: Faith, community and a call to serve others connect our Catholic schools
  • Correction Ministries: Affording housing is a challenge for many re-entering society
  • Journey of the Heart: A car’s special feature drives home the point of how God steers our lives when we are vulnerable
  • Faith and Family: The Eucharist fills all families with grace, maybe especially those with noisy children
  • Be Our Guest: Eucharist Revival is allowing MTCA to bring its students closer to Christ
  • Be Our Guest: A ‘love story’: Teacher sees students develop an intimate relationship with the Blessed Sacrament
  • Investing with Faith: Charitable gift annuities offer an added incentive to help God’s work

• February 2, 2024

  • Editorial: Are you open to new ideas to draw closer to God? If so, consider these
  • Guest Column: Father, Son, Holy Spirit: Is now a time to change your prayer routine?
  • Be Our Guest: Feb. 12 Mass, program remember unborn children tragically lost to abortion

• February 9, 2024

  • Editorial: Archdiocese celebrates an impressive legacy
  • Twenty Something: Cold water, warm heart: ‘plunge’ can make you feel alive, closer to God
  • Our Works of Charity: Catholic Charities offers ongoing support to those seeking adoption

• February 16, 2024

  • Editorial: An invitation to draw closer to Christ and be a powerful witness of our faith
  • Journey of the Heart: May we have the courage to heal, to forgive, to love—to truly be human
  • Evangelization Outreach: College moments show how God’s word can transform young adults
  • Be Our Guest: A heinous doctor, his 2,411 victims, and what it means about our human race

• February 23, 2024

  • Editorial: Speaking from the heart, pope calls us to listen, forgive, love as Christ did
  • Correction Ministries: Re-entry pilot program aims to help those released from prison
  • That All May Be One: Prayerful rituals are meant to be sensitive to others’ spiritual journey
  • Emmaus Walk: Toddler’s tantrum reminds grandmother we are called to trust God
  • Faith and Family: Each day is filled with ‘now’ moments in holiness
  • Reflection: In praise of Cheerios, hair clips and young adult parents who live their faith
  • Investing with Faith: Bequests to parish, school or ministry allow us to leave a legacy of love

• March 1, 2024

  • Editorial: A prayer for peace—and for the children and other innocent victims who suffer during wars
  • Guest Column: Our mission includes planting seeds in others’ lives that bear fruit

• March 8, 2024

  • Editorial: Lent is a time to practice self-sacrificing love
  • Joyful Witness: Spiritual slump leads to realization of contentment
  • Our Works of Charity: A call to uphold the value and dignity of life in all its stages
  • Twenty Something: The painting beneath the painting: faith that endures

• March 15, 2024

  • Editorial: Do you have time to pray, to stand up for children, for life?
  • Journey of the Heart: Is your heart ready for the joy that God and life offer?
  • Evangelization Outreach: The veneration of the cross teaches us important lessons in life
  • Be Our Guest: Workout, love between husband and wife offer a reminder God looks into our hearts

• March 22, 2024

  • Editorial: Observing a synodal Lent
  • Corrections Ministries: New programs will help counties address mental health challenges
  • That All May Be One: Paschal season offers hope to our Muslim, Jewish brothers and sisters
  • Reflection: A hope for the total solar eclipse: May the wonder of that event continue in our lives

• March 29, 2024

  • Editorial: Walking with Christ during Holy Week: a path from heartbreak to unimaginable joy
  • Faith and Family: Christ invites us into his dying and rising every day in family life
  • Reflection: Christ’s powerful presence shines in the word and the Eucharist
  • Investing with Faith: Endowments support Christ’s mission now and for the long term

• April 5, 2024

  • Editorial: Reasons for being joyful
  • Guest Column: Scripture reminds us that ‘wisdom is vindicated by all her children’
  • Reflection: An Irish poet’s prayer, a ‘Ted Lasso’ scene and a song of hope remind us of who we are called to be

• April 12, 2024

  • Editorial: Despite success of 40 Days for Life campaign, fight protecting the unborn is far from over
  • Joyful Witness: Would you recognize Jesus if he returned to Earth today?
  • Twenty Something: Gowns of grace, heaps of joy: rediscovering the beauty of Catholicism
  • Our Works of Charity: Embracing our powerful and timeless message to ‘love thy neighbor’
  • Reflection: ‘Sun and moon, bless the Lord, praise and exult him above all forever’