January 2025

Film presents victim offended as much by the system as by her attacker

Lindsborg had showings of a documentary about a local woman who said consensual sex turned into rape and had wounds to show it, but who couldn’t get the charge brought by the country attorney or a grand jury that she summoned herself through a little-known Kansas law – an effort that won national attention. “Loud Enough – Surviving Justice,” a 2023 film by Hilary Klotz Steinman, was presented Friday night and Saturday afternoon at the Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center.

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All for one

Imagine receiving a brochure in the mail that outlines what to do if war or a national crisis occurs. This was my experience both times I lived in Sweden.

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Unnecessary but loved

This Catechism of the Catholic Church serves as a sort of compendium of the oral teaching given by Jesus and passed down to us through the many generations of believers under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The current version was promulgated in 1992 and begins with this paragraph: "God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life.

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Care advised in eating wild fish

The bodies of wild fish and shellfish in Kansas carry the heavy metal mercury, a fallout from coal-fired power plants. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said some fish species should not be eaten more than once a month, especially by women who are nursing, pregnant, or who might become pregnant, or by children.

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