Birthday cake packing event St. Mary’s Cottonwood CCW is sponsoring a birthday cake packing event after Mass on Sunday, Dec. 7. Bring the ingredients for a cake (box cake mix + can of soda or angel food cake mix) and frosting/topping. Add candles and sprinkles if you’d like. Baking pans ...

I think what most of us get wrong about gratitude is we believe the source of our gratitude emanates from things, both tangible and intangible, that we possess. Right? So many of us take stock of our lives and think, “Well, I have a beautiful house; my family is healthy; we have plenty of ...

This weekend America is wrapping up “Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week,” an annual recognition held the week before Thanksgiving “to draw attention to the problems of hunger and homelessness.” As with most awareness campaigns, for many of us they don’t truly raise our ...

The other morning I hopped into my Ford F150 to start the day. When the onboard computer systems were a go, and the radio fired up, my SiriusXM was tuned to a station that I never, ever listen to. Some pop music channel I’d never heard of. Weird, right? Then on came a rap/reggae tune ...

KC’s Food Shelf Drive at Hy-Vee The annual Holy Redeemer Knights of Columbus food drive for November will be at Hy-Vee on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 21-22. In December the dates will be the Dec. 19-20. Vatican rehires couple fired from its bank for violating workplace marriage ...

I think that one of the most challenging aspects of living a life of faith is the realization that everything in this earthly life we know is so … ethereal. Circumstances can change in the time that it takes for an eyelash to drop to the ground, and that is a very disconcerting thought for ...