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Vatican News
Pope: Religions are wellspring of healing, not source of division
September 17, 2025 - 2:03amPope Leo XIV sends a message to the 8th Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held in Kazakhstan, and invites the faithful of all religions to help build a future of peace, fraternity, and solidarity.
Pope: Gaza 'requires another solution' as people flee city
September 16, 2025 - 2:44pmSpeaking to journalists as he leaves Castel Gandolfo on Tuesday evening to return to the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV laments the exodus from Gaza City, calling for efforts to find a different solution.
Trump arrives in UK for state visit
September 16, 2025 - 1:00pmPresident Donald Trump arrives in Britain on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit by a U.S. leader that will include plenty of pomp and pageantry and protests by critics of Trump.
U.N. report accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
September 16, 2025 - 10:23amUnited Nations investigators conclude Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza strip.
Kenya: Faithful gather to honour Cardinal Otunga on his 22nd Anniversary
September 16, 2025 - 10:04amHundreds of the Catholic faithful recently converged, at the Resurrection Garden in Karen to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the death of Servant of God Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga, Kenya’s first Cardinal.
Parish Flocknote
Spirtuality Class
September 15, 2025 - 2:00pmAdult Faith Opportunity Tuesday, Octobe r 14 , 2025 – 7:00 pm (note the change in time) Join us at the Cathedral Basilica for an evening of prayer and reflection with Brother Benedict Gregory Johnson, OP , a Dominican friar...Exaltation of the Holy Cross
September 14, 2025 - 2:00pmThe Exaltation of the Holy Cross Today, September 14, the Church “exalts” the Cross of Christ as the symbol of salvation. The Cross is the most powerful and universal symbol of our Christian faith. It has inspired liturgical...Weekly Update
September 12, 2025 - 2:01pmSchedule for September 13-14 Saturday, September 13 7:00 am Cathedral Open for Private Prayer and Devotion 8:00 am Mass 1:30 pm Wedding 3:30 - 4:30 pm Holy Hour - concluding with Evening Prayer and Benediction 3:30 pm – 5:00...From the Rector
September 11, 2025 - 10:00amDear Parishioners, When I woke up this morning and turned on the news, the footage of September 11th was being shown again. I remember exactly where I was that day. Every time I see those images or hear the reports, the sadness...Weekly Update
September 6, 2025 - 5:11pmSeptember 6-7 Saturday, September 6th 7:00 am Open for Private Prayer and Devotion 8:00 am Mass - 1:30 pm Wedding 3:30 - 4:30 pm Holy Hour - concluding with Evening Prayer and Benediction 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Confessions 5:00 pm...
National Catholic Register
Parents of Annunciation Shooting Victim Say Daughter’s Progress Is a ‘Miracle’
September 16, 2025 - 4:13pmFlowers are seen on Sept. 3, 2025, outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where a shooter killed two children and injured 21 other people on Aug. 27, 2025.
Sophia Forchas’ parents asked the world for prayers — and the world responded.
British Royal Family Holds First Catholic Funeral in Centuries for Duchess of Kent
September 16, 2025 - 3:51pmPallbearers from the Royal Dragoon Guards carry Katharine the Duchess of Kent’s coffin, draped in the Royal Standard, into Westminster Cathedral for a Vigil for the Deceased with Rite of Reception and Vespers for the Dead ahead of her funeral on Sept. 15, 2025, in London.
King Charles’ presence marked the first time a reigning British monarch has attended a Catholic funeral in a formal capacity on U.K. grounds since the Reformation.
U.S. Bishops Launch ‘Healing and Hope’ Initiative to Promote, Strengthen Mental Health
September 16, 2025 - 3:23pmSewCreamStudio Mental health
The U.S. bishops have added three new elements to the mental health campaign to strengthen Catholic engagement ahead of World Mental Health Day.
Armenian Patriarch Invites Pope Leo XIV to Visit Armenia
September 16, 2025 - 3:17pmVatican Media Pope Leo XIV meets with Catholicos Karekin II, the patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, at Villa Barberini, the papal residence overlooking Lake Albano in Castel Gandolfo, Italy on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025.
Armenians worldwide maintain strong ties to their church, shaped in part by the 1915 genocide.
Patriarch Bartholomew Meets With Trump During U.S. Visit, Talks Middle East, Ukraine
September 16, 2025 - 3:15pmPresident.gov.ua Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.
In his first visit to the U.S. in about four years, the patriarch will stay for nearly two weeks.
First Things
Ralph Lauren, American Patriot
January 21, 2025 - 5:00amOn 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.
Begging Your Pardon
January 20, 2025 - 5:00amWho 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?
To Hell With Notre Dame?
January 20, 2025 - 5:00amI 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.
The Mercurial Bob Dylan
January 17, 2025 - 5:00amThere’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.
The Theology of Music
January 17, 2025 - 5:00amÉ 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.