Bill Schmitt

May 27, 2024 | onword.net | Bill Schmitt |William Schmitt

Our society’s embrace of the all-purpose polarizer—the worldview labeled “oppressed vs. oppressor” or “victim vs. victimizer”—prompts us to weaponize everything, including guilt. We’ve got lots of glass houses and plenty of stones. Guilt is already a formidable material when it resides inside us. Today’s politicized viewpoints, seen in campus protest mobs and many other settings, reveal that our personal pangs are now marauding throughout a secular culture that has no cure for them.

Nov 1, 2023 | globenewswire.com | Bill Schmitt

Wilmington, Delaware, Nov. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- There’s a tried and proven pathway to reducing racial disparities in cancer in Delaware. It worked with colon cancer 10 years ago and should now be applied to the incidence of breast cancer in the state. That's the recommendation of clinicians, program leaders and researchers from the ChristianaCare Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute in a new commentary published in Population Health Management on Nov. 1, 2023.

Oct 31, 2023 | billschmitt.substack.com | Bill Schmitt

Sisters of Life precede a Eucharistic procession that was part of a four-day pilgrimage to the New York State Eucharistic Congress. (Photo: William Schmitt)On October 20-22, 2023, the Diocese of Albany hosted thousands of people at a New York State Eucharistic Congress. This effort to inform and inspire Catholics about the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is part of the ongoing National Eucharistic Revival initiated by the Bishops of the United States.

Sep 28, 2023 | billschmitt.substack.com | Bill Schmitt

I’d like to say a word for the angels. Especially the ones whom I lovingly call the “blue-collar workers” of the heavenly host. Why now? The few weeks between our annual remembrance of the 9/11 terror attacks and the Catholic Church’s feast day of the Holy Guardian Angels on Oct. 2 place me in a headspace that seeks holiness. Once again this year, after observing my Sept.

Sep 6, 2023 | globenewswire.com | Bill Schmitt

Wilmington, Delaware, Sept. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eric Kmiec, Ph.D., executive director and chief scientific officer of ChristianaCare’s Gene Editing Institute, has been selected as editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Gene and Genome Editing. Kmiec served three years on the journal’s board prior to this new position.