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Articles by Russell E. Saltzman

About Russell E. Saltzman
Before entering seminary and becoming a Lutheran pastor (before becoming Roman Catholic), Russell E. Saltzman was a newspaper reporter, press secretary to a member of Congress, and deputy secretary of state of Kansas.
The Dispatch

Bishop James V. Johnston: “We have to address failure”

October 3, 2018 Russell E. Saltzman 8

James V. Johnston’s tenure as the seventh bishop of the diocese of Kansas City–St. Joseph, Missouri, may have begun September 15 of 2015, the day Pope Francis announced his appointment. But his actual episcopacy probably […]

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Thoughts on reforming the Church in America

August 22, 2018 Russell E. Saltzman 6

I think a bishop should be the kind of guy whose palms still sweat a bit when entering the pulpit, accompanied by a small number […]

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Civil war served cold

July 29, 2018 Russell E. Saltzman 11

Forty-two percent of Americans think it is  “likely” or “very likely” for a civil war to erupt within five years, about three years into the […]

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Jefferson and Adams: Contentious politics that continue to resonate

July 3, 2018 Russell E. Saltzman 4

We still live with the dispute begun by Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The debates around the ratification of the Constitution are arguments that continue to define […]

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At the End of the Long Death

June 14, 2018 Russell E. Saltzman 4

Four times with loved ones I have confronted what I call the Long Death, days stretching to months. always accompanied by medical choices and practical […]

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Ireland and the Pagan Resurgence

June 1, 2018 Russell E. Saltzman 31

What we see in Ireland and throughout the West is Belloc’s pagan life “without Christian revelation” and Ratzinger’s “Church of pagans who call themselves Christian”. […]

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