Commentary

Last winter, with all the terrible ice and snow, I fell and broke my arm. While I was waiting for surgery, I slept in a recliner in the family room so I would not accidentally roll over on my arm. Throughout that week, I found myself waking up during the night and turning on EWTN programming.

In a world of broken marriages, unhappy relationships and false notions of love, is it even possible to believe in romantic love anymore? This is the question posed by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham's “Lunar New Year Love Story.”

The Easter Vigil is a solemn celebration of Christ’s glorious redemption of humanity. But at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City this year, it was also the scene of something else: a disruption in the name of a social cause.

During the House floor proceedings March 25, Republican legislators tried to prioritize the restoration of religious freedom protections in the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA) by moving to declare an urgency on the matter, which allows a bill to bypass the committee process and move right to a floor vote.

I met a young woman named Katie who had served as a Franciscan missionary in Zambia at an orphanage for children living with AIDS.

Editor’s note: Amara Strande spent her final months lobbying for a state law that restricts the non-essential use of “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS, in a large swath of products. The then-20-year-old woman from Woodbury believed the chemicals led to her developing cancer. Legislators passed Amara’s Law, named in her honor, a week after her death in 2023, and it is now state law.

This year, I'm glad to see Lent come to an end, and not just because of Easter Alleluias and Cadbury dark chocolate eggs.

Jenna Wright has come a long way from being an NFL cheerleader to a first Communion catechist.