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  • Weekly Update

    April 18, 2026 - 8:07am
    Schedule for April 18-19 Saturday, April 18 7:00 am Cathedral Open for Private Prayer and Devotion 8:00 am Mass  11:00 am Wedding 1:30 pm Wedding 3:30 - 4:15 pm Holy Hour - concluding with Evening Prayer and Benediction 3:30 pm...
  • Sprituality Class

    April 14, 2026 - 2:01pm
    Signup: Preaching the Gospel: Dominican Spirituality for the Whole Church Join us at the Cathedral Basilica for an evening of prayer and reflection with Brother Benedict Gregory Johnson, OP , a Dominican friar. Brother Benedict...
  • Weekly Update

    April 10, 2026 - 2:01pm
    Schedule for April 11-12 Saturday, April 11 7:00 am Cathedral Open for Private Prayer and Devotion 8:00 am Mass  10:00 am Confirmation 1:30 pm Confirmation 3:30 - 4:15 pm Holy Hour - concluding with Evening Prayer and...
  • Divine Mercy Sunday

    April 8, 2026 - 2:01pm
    On Sunday, April 12, 2026, we celebrate the Feast of Divine Mercy, a feast day added to the liturgical calendar by St. John Paul II to celebrate the overwhelming mercy of Jesus Christ. In recognition of this very special day, the...
  • Wayne Eultgen and Ellie Watt

    April 6, 2026 - 9:01am
    Wayne Eultgen One of our long-time parishioners Wayne Eulgten died this past week. His Funeral will be this coming Tuesday, April 7 at 10:00 am in the Cathedra Basilica of St. Louis. Fortified with the sacraments of Holy Mother...
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National Catholic Register

  • ‘Stories of Light’: Christian Initiation and Catechesis As a Way to Transform Lives

    April 27, 2026 - 8:26am
    ungvar Among the documentʼs most valuable contributions are the testimonies of young people, families, and catechists, who bear witness to the spiritual growth they experienced.

    A new document issued by the Paraguayan Bishops’ Conference describes how catechesis can go beyond imparting knowledge to becoming a means of personal transformation in Christ and living the faith.

  • Shots Fired at White House Correspondents’ Dinner: ‘I Just Knew I Needed to Protect My Wife’

    April 27, 2026 - 5:22am
    Courtesy photo Erik Rosales and his wife pose for a photo along the red carpet at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C.

    A reminder that reliance on God is not reserved for moments of crisis, but something to carry daily.

  • US Bishops Say Violence ‘Never the Answer’ After Shooting at White House Press Dinner

    April 26, 2026 - 12:30pm
    A screen grab taken from a video filmed by an AFP reporter shows armed agents moving to the stage after loud bangs were heard during the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington on April 25, 2026.

    Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, condemned violence, and Bishop David Bonnar of Youngstown, Ohio said the issue of gun violence must be addressed.

  • Pope Leo XIV Tells New Priests: 'You Are a Channel, Not a Filter'

    April 26, 2026 - 8:46am
    Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Pope Leo XIV ordains a man to the priesthood at Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on April 26, 2026.

    The Pope ordained 10 men to the priesthood on Good Shepherd Sunday and later warned at the Regina Caeli against the 'thieves' that rob people of freedom, dignity, and peace.

  • ‘We Are an Easter People’: Celebrate Eastertide Well

    April 26, 2026 - 5:00am
    A statue of the Blessed Mother is surrounded by flowers in Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Brownsville, Texas.

    Mother Mary accompanies the faithful during this holy and joyous season.

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First Things

  • Ralph Lauren, American Patriot

    January 21, 2025 - 5:00am

    On January 4 , President Joe Biden honored nineteen individuals with the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. While one could argue that some were less deserving of the award than others, I believe that one honoree deserved it without question: Ralph Lauren, a living embodiment of the American dream who in turn made America his muse. His designs pay homage to the cowboy, the soldier, the Ivy Leaguer. For Lauren, no aspect of the American character isn’t worth celebrating—a welcome contrast to the self-loathing that usually pervades the upper echelons of society.  

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  • Begging Your Pardon

    January 20, 2025 - 5:00am

    Who attempts to overthrow a government without weapons? Why would the alleged leader of an insurrection authorize military force to protect the government, and why would the alleged insurrection victims countermand that authorization? How do people who listen to speeches about democratic procedures and election integrity in one location transform into enemies of the Constitution after walking a mile and a half to the east? Who believes that interrupting a vote would overturn a government? If there was an attempted insurrection, why would a notoriously creative and aggressive prosecutor fail to find any basis for filing insurrection charges?

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  • To Hell With Notre Dame?

    January 20, 2025 - 5:00am

    I first visited the University of Notre Dame du Lac (to use its proper inflated style) in 2017 as a guest of some friends in the law school. By then I had already hated the place for more or less my entire life. For me, Notre Dame was synonymous with the Roman Catholic Church as I had known her in childhood: dated folk art aesthetics (has anyone ever written about how ugly the buildings are?), the Breaking Bread missalette, the so-called “Celtic” Alleluia, the thought (though not the actual writings) of Fr. Richard McBrien, jolly fat Knights of Columbus in their blue satin jackets, avuncular permanent deacons named Tom, Pat, or, occasionally, Dave. At the age of twenty-seven, I expected to find preserved something of the religious atmosphere of the middle years of John Paul II’s papacy: the quiet half-acknowledged sense of desperation, the all-pervading horror of unbelief that could never be allowed formally to take shape among the grandchildren of European immigrants who had done well for themselves in the professions—perhaps too well.

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  • The Mercurial Bob Dylan

    January 17, 2025 - 5:00am

    There’s a version of Bob Dylan for everyone: small-town boy from Duluth, Minnesota; scrappy folk troubadour of Greenwich Village; electric rock poet who defied expectations at Newport; introspective born-again Christian; Nobel Laureate. As any journalist who has interviewed him will attest, Dylan is an enigma. Capturing the whole man is harder than making a bead of mercury sit still in one’s palm. 

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  • The Theology of Music

    January 17, 2025 - 5:00am

    É lisabeth-Paule Labat (1897–1975) was an accomplished pianist and composer when she entered the abbey of Saint-Michel de Kergonan in her early twenties. She devoted her later years to writing theology and an “Essay on the Mystery of Music,” published a decade ago as The Song That I Am , translated by Erik Varden . It’s a brilliant and beautiful essay, but what sets it apart from most explorations of music is its deeply theological character.

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Vatican Daily Bulletin

  • Address of the Holy Father Leo XIV on the occasion of the blessing of the first stone of the “Centro Cuore – Papa Francesco” of the “A. Gemelli” Hospital in Rome

    April 27, 2026 - 8:30am
    This morning, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Leo XIV blessed the first stone of the “Centro Cuore – Papa Francesco” of the “A. Gemelli” Hospital in Rome.

    The following is the address delivered by the Pope to those present during the rite of blessing:

     

    Address of the Holy Father

    Dear friends, good morning and welcome!

    I welcome with pleasure your desire for the Pope to bless the first stone of the “Centro Cuore”, the new great work of the Gemelli Hospital, dedicated to Pope Francis. The name Cuore (Heart), given to the new structure, offers me a starting point for the brief reflection I will share with you.

    In its primary, let us say functional, meaning, it stands for Cardiovascular Unique Offer ReEngineered . In other words, it indicates, through an acronym that is effective in its immediacy, that part of the vast complex that is the “Gemelli” where the treatment of cardiovascular diseases will be concentrated. You describe it as a new person-centred organizational model. It is a demanding challenge, which I hope you will tackle with enthusiasm, collaboration and also prayer.

    But the word cuore , heart, for your hospital, means much more, because it is part of the very name of the university to which it belongs: the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.

    In this regard, I would like to recall an important historical detail. When the long-awaited moment came to seek state recognition for the new university, many people advised Father Gemelli not to name it after the Sacred Heart, as that title would have been too devotional. And the founder honestly considered the issue. But Blessed Armida Barelli had no doubts: the University had to be “of the Sacred Heart”, because it was precisely to the Heart of Christ that the series of “miracles” which had made the undertaking possible was owed. Gemelli listened to his trusted collaborator, and the name was also approved by the government authorities.

    Today, we can say that this choice, which was prophetic at the time, remains so today, given that Pope Francis chose to dedicate his last Encyclical, Dilexit nos – almost a testament – to “the human and divine love of the Heart of Jesus Christ”.

    In its first part, it recalls Christian anthropology, which understands the heart as the centre and synthesis of the human person. I would like to quote just one passage: “This profound core, present in every man and woman, is not that of the soul, but of the entire person in his or her unique psychosomatic identity. Everything finds its unity in the heart, which can be the dwelling-place of love in all its spiritual, psychic and even physical dimensions. In a word, if love reigns in our heart, we become, in a complete and luminous way, the persons we are meant to be, for every human being is created above all else for love. In the deepest fibre of our being, we were made to love and to be loved” (no. 21). In this part of the Encyclical, you can find the framework of principles and values that underpin the formation at your hospital, a formation which, on this occasion, I simply wish to encourage: the more “Gemelli” grows, the greater the care that must be taken over the human and Christian formation of those who work there.

    The central message of Dilexit nos is, however, theological and spiritual, centred on the mystery of love of the Heart of Christ, the primary source of inspiration and support for our life and our work. Like an everlasting flame, this love has inspired countless witnesses of charity within the Church, including in the fields of educational and social charity. Among these we may count Father Gemelli, Blessed Armida Barelli and the other founders of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.

    We know how much Gemelli had longed for the Faculty of Medicine, and we are certain that from above he continues to accompany its developments, especially this initiative of the Centro Cuore . With these sentiments, I bless you all and the first stone of the new building, invoking the intercession of Mary Most Holy, Seat of Wisdom and Health of the Sick. Thank you!

  • Audience with Her Grace Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury

    April 27, 2026 - 5:31am
    This morning, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience Her Grace Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury.

    The following is the address delivered by the Pope to those present at the meeting:

     

    Address of the Holy Father

    Your Grace,

    Peace be with you!

    In the joy of this Paschal season, as we continue to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus from the dead, I am pleased to welcome you and your Delegation to the Vatican.

    Your visit brings to mind the  memorable encounter between Saint Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey sixty years ago , the anniversary of which you marked with Cardinal Koch in Canterbury Cathedral on the morning after your installation.  Since then, Archbishops of Canterbury and Bishops of Rome have continued to meet and pray together, and I am glad that we are continuing this tradition today.  I am likewise grateful for the ministry of the Anglican Centre in Rome, also established sixty years ago, and I greet in a special way the Centre’s Director, Bishop Anthony Ball, whom you will commission this evening as your Representative to the Holy See.

    Throughout these days of Eastertide, the first words spoken by the risen Christ resound throughout the Church: “Peace be with you” ( Jn  20:19).  This greeting invites us not only to accept the Lord’s gift of peace, but also to be messengers of his peace.  I have often mentioned that the peace of the risen Jesus is “unarmed.”  This is because he always responded to violence and aggression in an unarmed way, inviting us to do likewise.  Moreover, I believe that Christians must bear prophetic and humble witness to this profound reality together (cf .  Message for the LIX World Day of Peace , 1 January 2026).

    While our suffering world greatly needs the peace of Christ, the divisions among Christians weakens our capacity to be effective bearers of that peace.  If the world is to take our preaching to heart, we must, therefore, be constant in our prayers and efforts to remove any stumbling blocks that hinder the proclamation of the Gospel. This focus on the need for unity for the sake of a more fruitful evangelization has been a theme throughout my own ministry; indeed it is reflected in the motto I chose when I became a bishop:  In Illo uno unum , “In the One — that is Christ — we are one”   (Saint Augustine,  Enarr. in Ps.,  127, 3).

    In this regard, when Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Saint Paul VI announced the first theological dialogue between Anglicans and Catholics, they spoke of seeking the “restoration of complete communion in faith and sacramental life” ( Common Declaration ,  24 March 1966). Certainly this ecumenical journey has been complex.  While much progress has been made on some historically divisive issues, new problems have arisen in recent decades, rendering the pathway to full communion more difficult to discern.  I know that the Anglican Communion is also facing many of these same questions at this time.  Nevertheless, we must not allow these continuing challenges to prevent us from using every possible opportunity to proclaim Christ to the world together.  As my beloved predecessor,  Pope Francis , said to the Primates of the Anglican Communion in 2024, “it would be a scandal if, due to our divisions, we did not fulfil our common vocation to make Christ known”  (Address to Primates of the Anglican Communion,  2 May 2024).  For my part, I add that it would also be a scandal if we did not continue to work towards overcoming our differences, no matter how intractable they may appear.

    As we continue to journey together in friendship and dialogue, then, let us pray that the Holy Spirit, whom the Lord breathed on the disciples on the evening after his resurrection, will guide our steps as we prayerfully and humbly seek the unity which is the Lord’s will for all his disciples.

    Your Grace, in thanking you for your visit today, I pray that the same Holy Spirit will remain with you always, making you fruitful in the service to which you have been called.

    May God bless you and your family.

  • Notice of Press Conference

    April 27, 2026 - 5:25am
    Today, Monday 27 April 2026 , at  12.15 , a  press conference  will be held at the Holy See Press Office to present the  Holy See Pavilion  L’Orecchio è l’Occhio dell’Anima  (“The Ear is the Eye of the Soul”)  at the  61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale , to be held from 9 May to 22 November 2026:

     

    The speakers will be:

    -  His Eminence Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça , prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education;

    -  Hans Ulrich Obrist , curator;

    -  Ben Vickers , curator;

    -  Soundwalk Collective , artist;

    -  Fr. Ermanno Barucco, O.C.D. , Discalced Carmelite Mystical Garden of Venice;

    -  Michele Coppola , executive director for Art, Culture and Historical Heritage, Intesa San Paolo;

    -  Teresa Teixeira , group representative.

    The press conference will be livestreamed in the original language on the  Vatican News  YouTube channel, at  https://www.youtube.com/c/VaticanNews

    Remote participation

    Journalists and media operators who wish to participate in the press conference remotely must apply, no later than two hours before the event, via the Holy See Press Office online accreditation system, at  https://press.vatican.va/accreditamenti , selecting the event:  CS presentazione Padiglione Santa Sede Biennale di Venezia 2026 .

    During the request phase, select the option “Sì” in the box “Partecipazione da remoto”.

    Journalists and media operators who are admitted will receive confirmation of participation via the online accreditation system and, at the same time, a link to access the virtual platform and to participate actively in the press conference, with the possibility to ask questions.

     

    Participation in person

    Journalists and media operators who wish to participate in the press conference in person must apply, no later than 24 hours before the event, via the Holy See Press Office online accreditation system, at  https://press.vatican.va/accreditamenti , selecting the event:  CS presentazione Padiglione Santa Sede Biennale di Venezia 2026 .

    Journalists and media operators who are admitted will receive confirmation of participation via the online accreditation system.

     

    Simultaneous translation

    It is possible to access the simultaneous translation channels and listen to the press conference in Italian, English and Portuguese, both via the YouTube  Vatican News  channels in the respective languages, and by using the virtual participation platform indicated in the paragraph “Remote participation”.

    Simultaneous translation is also available for those attending the press conference in person at the Holy See Press Office.

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    Journalists and media operators accredited for the press conference are advised to arrive 30 minutes before the start time.

  • Promulgation of Decrees of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints

    April 27, 2026 - 5:23am
    During the audience granted to His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the same Dicastery to promulgate the Decrees regarding:

    - the martyrdom of the Servants of God Estanislao Ortega García (né Lorenzo) and 48 companions, professed religious of the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Instruction of Saint Gabriel, and of Manuel Berenguer Clusellas, diocesan priest, killed between the months of July and November 1936 in hatred of the faith, in various parts of Catalonia, Spain, in the context of the same persecution;

    - the offer of life of the Servant of God Pedro Manuel Salado Alba, lay faithful, member of the “Hogar de Nazaret” Association, born on 1 January 1968 in Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain, and died on 5 February 2012 in Playa de Tonsupa near Atacames, Ecuador;

    - the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Eletta of Jesus (née Caterina Tramazzoli), professed religious sister of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, born on 28 January 1605 in Terni, Italy, and died on 11 January 1663 in Prague (present-day Czech Republic);

    - the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Mary Teresa of the Most Holy Trinity (née Teresa Ysseldijk), professed religious sister of the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus, born on 13 November 1897 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, and died on 10 March 1926 in St. Louis, United States of America;

    - the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Raffaella De Giovanni, founder of the Third Order of Minims of Saint Francis of Paula, born on 30 July 1870 in Genoa, Italy, and died there on 11 March 1933.

  • Audiences

    April 27, 2026 - 5:08am
    This morning, the Holy Father received in audience:

    - His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints;

    - Archbishop Vincenzo Turturro, titular of Ravello, apostolic nuncio in Paraguay;

    - Her Grace Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury, and entourage;

    - His Eminence Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches;

    - His Eminence Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development; with Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, F.M.A., secretary; His Eminence Cardinal Fabio Baggio, C.S., undersecretary; and Msgr. Josef Barlaš, undersecretary;

    - His Eminence Cardinal Ernest Simoni, with family members;

    - Blessing of the first stone of the “Centro Cuore – Papa Francesco” of Gemelli Hospital, Rome.

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    Activities of the Holy Father in the afternoon:

    - Visit to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Piazza della Minerva, 74.

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