Opinion

Pastor's Blog - Mardi Gras or Easter – Choose

  Mardi Gras or Easter – Choose   Many of you probably know that the Tuesday just prior to Ash Wednesday is called ‘Fat Tuesday’ or in French, ‘Mardi ...

Brad Wines

  Wine has an image problem.   Few beverages can make me feel as incompetent, uninformed and undeserving as wine.  It’s almost as if the wine bottle on the shelf i...

Why we did not cover the news that did not happen

  There is just one reason why we at Vinton Today did not write about the threat of armed intruders that led to students coming home to tell their parents that they had heard about an arme...

Backyard Reporting

Sometimes I still have to laugh at our lack of common sense.  As I've admitted before, we are city folks, just living in the country.  For decades the Closes and the Stainbroo...

Pastor\'s Blog - Reflections on Valentine’s Day

Zach Zajicek and family So Valentines Day has come and gone.  And, just like every other year, I heard several complaints, rants, and rages against the whole idea.  Most of them are quite amusing!  The comp...

Speechless (even in space) on Valentine\'s Day

  The astronauts and other experts in that field are currently testing new hi-tech communication devices, which will soon be deployed on the International Space Station. This new technolog...

A \'critical shortage\' of media honesty during an epidemic of hype

Is it too late to avert children dying? There is a "crisis threatening the lives of thousands of American children," according to ABC news. The evening newscast a few nights ago warned ab...

Letter to the Editor - The so called “birth control – Pill” issue

   From the very earliest days of the Catholic Church and its doctrine we believe that life begins when the sperm and egg are united.  If the fertilized egg then does not a...

Pastor\'s Blog - Groundhog Day

  On Feb. 2, a big event happened in a little town in Pennsylvania. At 7:25 a.m., Punxsutawney Phil (a groundhog) saw his shadow amongst partly cloudy skies. So what! Legend tells us that ...

Grandpa learns that it\'s time to \'cowboy up\'

  Sooner or later it was bound to happen. After two years of blissful, virtually stress-free grandparenthood, I had a bad day yesterday. More of a bad half-hour, really. Both o...