Guest Commentaries

Father Merle Kollasch, retired diocesan priest living in Bode, penned this guest column on his cousin, Msgr. A.J. "Joe" Elbert.

Column from Judge John Sandy of Spirit Lake St. Mary Parish - Art and music put us in contact with the Creator. Thomas Merton, in No Man Is an Island, describes it as attuning the soul to God. In a creative sympathy the artist finds the living law that governs the universe. What Merton called the secret gravitation drawing all things toward God as their center, true art lays bare in the depths of our own nature the law that has governed the universe.

Column by Judge John Sandy of Spirit Lake St. Mary Parish, sharing the story of Rosa Marmor Kramer and her fight to stay alive despite those who did not recognize the dignity and sanctity of every human life.

Guest column by Judge John Sandy of St. Mary Parish, Spirit Lake on the life and impact of St. Francis Cabrini who recognized the suffering of those in plain sight that others simply overlooked.