By Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger Three Catholic communities in the Diocese of Davenport are dreaming big after receiving $15,000 ...Read More ...

Ash Wednesday begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period is a tectonic time of year leading up to Easter. What we ...

LDS apostle Dallin Oaks announces Easter initiative and an African American spiritual finds its way into the new hymnbook.

Pope Francis, despite a worrying bilateral pneumonia diagnosis, is breathing on his own and not experiencing heart problems, ...

The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place not in Ireland but in America. "Records show that a St. Patrick’s Day parade ...

Pope Francis, despite a worrying bilateral pneumonia diagnosis, is breathing on his own and not experiencing heart problems, ...

Here's what you need to know about Easter 2025. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which falls on Wednesday, March 5 this year.

The holiday's date is determined by the spring equinox and full moon cycle. On the Gregorian calendar (the one we use), ...

Ash Wednesday, a holiday in which those practicing receive ash on their foreheads in the shape of a cross, will take place ...

San Rafael, the Spanish version of St. Raphael, is one of the area’s parishes named after the three archangels, which led to ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

One expert on Orthodoxy observes that they “do not feel much need for universal representation” and have a “very degraded” view of the Roman Catholic Church—and thus the pope—due to ...