The word virtue suggests something strong, but also difficult. Virtue is a good habit that makes you good. It also makes your life easier, because, just like any habit, as you grow in it, you do it...
A Clear Path to a Deeper Relationship with God You know prayer is important but still find it challenging. Perhaps it’s hard to find time, or you’re unsure what to do when you pray. Or maybe you feel...
Although we knew the day was coming, we could never truly prepare for the pain we felt when it finally arrived. Four months earlier, a neighbor noticed that Scout, our ten-year-old golden retriever...
As I compose these words, I am preparing to depart for Rome for the second session of the Synod on Synodality. I was elected by my brother bishops two years ago as a delegate to this gathering, and I...
When am I supposed to offer my opinion? For example, I have a friend who conceived a child through in vitro fertilization. Am I supposed to tell her that was wrong?
The Iron Range mission field that includes the parishes of St. Joseph in Gilbert, Resurrection in Eveleth, Our Lady of Hope in Aurora, and Holy Spirit in Virginia, has been rapidly moving into a new...
In a recent issue of the Loaves and Fishes newspaper, put out by the Catholic Worker community in Duluth, I found an essay by a person named Drew Anderson really moving. In the column, Anderson...
There are a few things that trigger rage in me. I don’t typically express outward fury, but this feeling makes my blood boil. I am passionately pro-life, and the deception that masks the truth about...
One of the most influential and famous persons over the last 100 years wasn’t an athlete, wasn’t a celebrity, wasn’t a political figure, but was a simple, short, four-foot-nothing religious nun from...
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds a chip to podcaster Liz Plank; and Catholics react, calling it anti-Catholic bigotry.
Is Whitmer truly mocking...
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Young people lead a procession in Protomartyrs Square at the Vatican for an ecumenical prayer service on Oct. 11, 2024.
During the...
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Bishops and cardinals concelebrate Mass with Pope Francis to open the second assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 2, 2024, in St...
Several of the new cardinal-designates announced by Pope Francis have applauded the increased diversity of those getting a red hat, saying the appointments signal a shift in center of Catholicism...
In his meeting with his brother Jesuits in Belgium, Pope Francis call secularization a “complex phenomenon” and noted sometimes the Church must “confront forms of paganism.”
Participants in the ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality have said that while questions surrounding the role of women in the Church are important, they can be distracting from other key issues on...