Recently, many people have been reaching out with questions about vaccines. So, I thought it would be helpful to mention some of the most common ones and try to provide some answers.

COLORADO SPRINGS. The Community of the Teresian Carmel and The Little Way Discalced Carmelites Secular Order in Colorado Springs are accepting aspirants during the order’s Feb. 27, 2021 monthly meeting. Monthly Carmelite meetings are held at Holy Apostles Church on the fourth Saturday, with a few exceptions due to holidays.

Here are answers to some of the most frequently-asked questions about gardening in Colorado:

Is it true that container plants can survive outside over the winter?

As we all know, in Colorado, containerized trees, shrubs, and almost all perennials are subject to extreme cold, drying winds, and frequent freeze-thaw cycles. Extra protection and care should be provided to ensure root to crown survival.

NEW YORK. The drama “Let Him Go” (R, Focus), writer-director Thomas Bezucha’s adaptation of Larry Watson’s 2013 novel, showcases a successful, if sometimes tense, marriage.

But it’s also a morally dicey affair in which characters’ good and evil instincts are intertwined in a way that can only be untangled through subtle ethical assessment.

SECURITY. St. Dominic Parish in Security is selling memorial ribbons for loved ones who have died. Ribbons will be placed on the church’s Christmas tree in December, and a special Memorial Mass will take place on Jan. 9, 2021 at 10 a.m. Funds raised will go toward the parish’s capital campaign to build Carmody Parish Hall. For more information, contact the parish office at 719-392-7653.

An unexpected headline in the New York Times recently caught my eye: “A Disrupted Thanksgiving Leaves the Turkey Business Guessing.”

The article that followed discussed a question that is, according to the author, on the tip of everyone’s tongue — “Just how many whole turkeys will Americans cook this year for a holiday whose wings have been clipped by the pandemic?”

Queridos hermanos y hermanas en Cristo,

Al acercarnos al Día de Acción de Gracias, aprovecho esta oportunidad para expresar mi agradecimiento a aquellos que han contribuido tan generosamente, y en muchos sentidos, a la misión de la Iglesia en nuestra diócesis.  Agradezco especialmente a aquellos que han contribuido a la construcción del nuevo Centro de Estudiantes Católicos en la UCCS (Universidad de Colorado en Colorado Springs).

Can you come in?”

My grandma’s favorite question is one we now discourage her from uttering.

The impulse to swing open her door and her arms, honed over nine decades and stitched into her Irish-Catholic DNA, is not easily thwarted. Yet we have attempted to do so this year.

In 1535, King Henry VIII (reigned 1509-1547) pressured Parliament to pass the Act of Supremacy, recognizing the British monarch as head of the Church in England. Most Catholics are familiar with Henry’s schismatic action. The same Catholics are equally unaware that every bishop in the kingdom acquiesced to the king’s pleasure — save one.