Faith Traditions

Advent season is time to hope, not just for good things, but for great ones.

Advent marks the first sanctification of adults seeking full initiation into the Catholic Church at Easter.

Saint John Henry Newman became a Doctor of the Church on Nov. 1, All Saints Day. A convert to Catholicism, he was a theologian of note, an academic, historian, writer and poet.

November, the month when Catholics remember and pray for those who have died, is a good time to reflect on purgatory.

By now you know that Inquiry is the first of the four-stage process for becoming Catholic. During this stage, the emphasis is reflecting about faith. Many wonder how their lives could be more meaningful if they turn their faith to the Catholic Church. Our church teaches that the journey is less about an inquirer seeking a faith they choose than it is about an inquirer answering God’s call. “The Lord is gently knocking at the window of your soul," Pope Leo XIV said during the

Bishop Thomas Hennen On Sept. 29, "Fr. Thom" became Bishop Thomas Hennen. He was ordained a deacon, then a priest in Davenport, Iowa....

A schedule might be detailed, even boring. But in the Catechumenate — the process of adults preparing to become fully initiated Catholics...

On September 29, the Most Rev. Thomas Hennen became the youngest bishop to lead a diocese in the United States. Congratulations Bishop...

What are the topics usually covered in the Catechumenate process?

Pope Leo XIV presided over his first canonization Mass on September 7 when he declared two young Italians as saints. Although Blessed...

World Day of Peace, January 1, 2026 Pope Leo XIV has chosen the theme for the 2026 World Day of Peace:  “Peace be with you all: Towards...

More than a million young people hear Pope Leo XIV challenge them to "open wide your hearts."

May is the month Catholics devote to Mary, who believed before she gave birth to Jesus.

Mourning the late Pope Francis: "I am surprised at how truly heavy my heart is over his death."

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio departed Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March 2013 to attend the conclave to elect the next pope. He never...

"Brothers and sisters, during this Jubilee Year in particular, we should feel strongly within us the summons to let  the hope of Easter...

Everything builds to the Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Vigil of Easter.

During Lent we are called to fasting, abstinence and alms giving. Here are other suggestions to renew our Lenten experience.