Roger Haight, S.J., was honored by the Catholic Theological Society of America this past weekend in Milwaukee for his contributions to academic theology and the church, a well-deserved tribute to a scholar who has endured much for his vocation as a theologian.
A North Country poet is this year’s winner of America Magazine s Foley Poetry Prize. Laurie Peterson, who writes under the pen name Laurinda Lind, lives and writes in Redwood, a Jefferson County hamlet north of Watertown.
A worker’s advocate, feminist leader and civil rights proponent whose work continues today at the age of 93, Dolores Huerta was an under-recognized leader.
I am grateful for all the poets who submitted their work for the contest. Every year we get poems from all over the United States, and even across the world, about any number of topics.