DAVENPORT — Some 70 priests rose from their seats in Sacred Heart Cathedral to renew their commitment to priestly service, a ...

When I arrived in the Helfta monastery in the small city of Eisleben in Saxony-Anhalt Germany on a cold day in December, ...

A larger-than-expected crowd gathered in a machine shed on Chad and Amanda Rockow’s farm in rural Stockton to celebrate St.

Emily Gietzen’s eyes convey a sense of longing as she tells a videographer in the documentary “Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to ...

Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) was a Dutch Catholic priest, a professor and writer, a theologian, psychologist, and spiritual ...

Roger Youngblut smiled warmly as he handed out worship aids in the east entrance to people arriving for the Chrism Mass at ...

BETTENDORF — When fifth-grade religious education teacher Tony Vermeer introduced his students at St. John Vianney Parish to The Catholic Messenger this academic year, he discovered that about half of ...

“Station 13: Jesus is taken down,” I prayed aloud during Stations of the Cross last Friday night at Our Lady of the River Catholic Church in LeClaire. “Yes, my Mass is complete, but not my mother’s ...

A Catholic couple has turned the page on heartbreak, something they attribute to God’s grace and fiction novels. Tyler and Sadie Woodley of Iowa City hope their story and their new book club will ...

A Holy Thursday tradition that began during the Renaissance, “Seven Churches Visitation,” will take place in Davenport and Bettendorf this Holy Thursday (April 17) after a successful experience of the ...

Q: What are we to make of the different forms of the liturgy within the Roman Rite? A: Last week, I covered the Eastern Churches and Rites, but what about the different Rites that seem to exist within ...

DAVENPORT — Blue and silver pinwheels lined the lawn of St. Ambrose University Children’s Campus on April 3. As part of Child Abuse Awareness Month, EveryChild hosts pinwheel gardens at various sites ...