1995 Nov -Hog Factory – Farm Struggle Writings (1,400 words) 95 11 12 Planning Nonviolent Direct Action to Corporate Hog Factories Friends from the Strangers and Guest Catholic Worker Community in Maloy IA. asked me to join them on Sat. Nov. 11th in Maloy to start planning a Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Campaign against the Iowa… Continue reading 1995 Nov -Hog Factory – Farm Struggle Writings (1,400 words)

1995 Feb  26 –   RESIGNATION ACCEPTED  (Prison Writings)   It is with mixed feelings I write to you that my resignation as Associate Pastor of St. Patrick Church has been accepted by Bishop Charron. Associate Pastors are assigned to three-year positions. This summer marks my 3rd year at St. Patrick’s.  I did not resign because… Continue reading 1995 Feb 26 – RESIGNATION ACCEPTED (Prison Writings)

1985 Farm Struggle Writings: (words 6, 089) 85 08 25 – Sullivans in Fed Bankruptcy Court August 24-25, 1985 SAD NEWS: Tuesday I was in Council Bluffs with Bob and Theresa Sullivan at the Federal Court House.  Bob is a deacon in our Church and a life long farmer from Earling, Iowa.  They were in… Continue reading 1985 Farm Struggle Writings: (words 6, 089)

1995 April 30 – 3rd Sun Easter (Bulletin Letters) Cycle C 3rd Sun Easter Acts 5, 27b-32. 40b-41   Dear friends; “Better for us to obey God than men!” Acts 5/29 In this week’s first reading from the 5th Chapter of Acts, the Apostles are back in court, in front of the High Priest and… Continue reading 1995 April 30 – 3rd Sun Easter (Bulletin Letters)

1995 June 12 – Trinity Sunday (Bulletin Letters) Cycle C Trinity Sun Prv 8, 22-31 Dear Friends; “When God made firm the skies above, when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth; When he set for the sea its limit… I was beside him as his craftsman… his delight day by day, playing before… Continue reading 1995 June 12 – Trinity Sunday (Bulletin Letters)

1995 May 14 – 5th Sun Easter (Bulletin Letters)   Dear friends; Original Mother’s Day Proclamation, Julia Ward Howe , Boston, Sept. 1870 Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all Women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be that of water or tears, say firmly: ‘We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant… Continue reading 1995 May 14 – 5th Sun Easter (Bulletin Letters)

1995 May 28 – 7th Sun Easter (Bulletin Letters)   Cycle C – 7th Sun Easter Acts 7, 55-60 Rv 22, 12-14. 16-17 Jn 17, 20-26   Dear Friends; “Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked to the sky above and saw the glory of God.” Acts 7/55 “Happy are they who wash their robes… Continue reading 1995 May 28 – 7th Sun Easter (Bulletin Letters)

1995 Aug 20 – 20th Sun (Bulletin Letters) Dear friends; Fr. Frank’s East Coast Travel Log: My twelve day road trip to Wash. D.C. was filled with many memorial moments and events. Perhaps the biggest accomplishment was going and coming back with four people in my little GEO Metro. Elijah Terrell, Brain’s 12 yr. old… Continue reading 1995 Aug 20 – 20th Sun (Bulletin Letters)

1995 Aug 6 – Transfiguration (Bulletin Letters) Dear friends; Hiroshima vs. Tabor, Bishop Dingman and Donald Kaul Call it an accident of history or divine intent but the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration on the same that the USA dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan – Aug. 6. The juxtaposition of… Continue reading 1995 Aug 6 – Transfiguration (Bulletin Letters)

1995 Dec 10 – 1st Sun (Bulletin Letters) Dear friends; Maloy Protest at Success! As you can see from the articles included in the bulletin, our protest in Maloy IA. received a lot of good press. The weather was so terrible the morning of the action that the Sheriff refused to get out of his… Continue reading 1995 Dec 10 – 1st Sun (Bulletin Letters)