Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsRobin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. After years of making and eating fancy food, Robin is sick of it all. She's returning to the basics: recipes that haven't surfaced in three decades. She reports on the results for Gut Check every Tuesday.I'm not Catholic, but I love the Lenten season. Not for the satisfaction of making a sacrifice. Nope. I love a good Friday-night fish fry. I think I would have been pretty happy in those pre-Second Vatican Council days w
www.myspace.comNathan Halbach, reportedly the son of a St. Louis priest, is now ill with brain cancer and asking for help from the Roman Catholic ChurchThe St. Louis chapter of SNAP (Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests) is on the lookout for girls or women who may have been abused by a Roman Catholic priest named Fr. Henry Willenborg, following a revelation last week that an O'Fallon resident fathered a child with Willenborg two decades ago."Willenborg lived and worked here [for ei
thereseofdivinepeace.orgMarybeth McBryan will become the third local Roman Catholic Womanpriest on Sunday -- critics be damned.Marybeth McBryan, a former member of the St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education and current deacon at Therese of Divine Peace, will be ordained as a Roman Catholic Womanpriest this Sunday. McBryan is the third local woman in the last two years to be ordained through the Virginia-based Womenpriest program. In November 2007, Rose Marie "Ree" Hudson and Elsie McGrat
