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  • St. Louis Tornado Diaster Relief

    May 19, 2025 - 3:42pm
    May 19, 2025   Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The St. Louis region was once again devastated by a tornado this past weekend, and our neighbors in St. Louis County and the City of St. Louis desperately need our support...
  • We have Powee

    May 17, 2025 - 11:46pm
    Just a quick note to let everyone that the Cathedral Basilica has power.  Thank you for your support and patience. Msgr. Breier
  • Update on Cathedral Power

    May 17, 2025 - 2:26pm
    Dear Parishioner and Friends of the Cathedral, The storms that swept through the Central West End on Friday have had a profound impact on our entire community. First and foremost, please keep in your prayers all those affected by...
  • Storm-power

    May 16, 2025 - 9:02pm
    The Cathedral sustained minimal damage in todays storm - just a few roof tiles are missing. However, we are currently without power and have no estimate for when it will be restored. We’ll keep you updated and will do...
  • Latest Updates and Catholic News

    May 10, 2025 - 1:20pm
    Looking for the latest updates on our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, and news from the Church around the world? Visit our Cathedral website at cathedralstl.org/news . There you’ll find...
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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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  • Visit of the Holy Father Leo XIV to the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls

    May 20, 2025 - 4:50pm
    This afternoon, the Holy Father Leo XIV went to the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls to venerate the “Trophaeum” of the Apostle Paul.

    Upon arrival, the Holy Father was welcomed by the Father Abbot and the Archpriest of the Basilica. Then, in procession, together with the Benedictine monks, he entered the Basilica from the Holy Door and walked towards the apse. Arriving at the Confession, Pope Leo XIV came down to venerate the tomb of Saint Paul. The Holy Father then addressed those present to introduce the reading of a passage from the Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Romans. Then, after a brief moment of silence, he went to the altar to venerate the Trophaeum of the Apostle.

    At the end, after the Apostolic Blessing, the Pope took his leave to return to the Vatican.

    The following is the homily delivered by the Holy Father during the celebration:

     

    Homily of the Holy Father

    The passage of Scripture that we have just heard is the opening of a beautiful letter written by Saint Paul to the Christians of Rome. Its message revolves around three great themes:  grace ,  faith  and  justification . As we entrust the beginning of this new Pontificate to the intercession of the Apostle of the Gentiles, let us reflect together on that message.

    Saint Paul starts by saying that he received from God the  grace  of his vocation (cf.  Rom  1:5). He acknowledges, in other words, that his encounter with Christ and his own ministry were the fruit of God’s prior love, which called him to a new life while he was still far from the Gospel and persecuting the Church. Saint Augustine, who was also a convert, spoke of the same experience in these words: “How can we choose, unless we have first been chosen? We cannot love, unless someone has loved us first” ( Serm.  34, 2). At the root of every vocation, God is present, in his mercy and his goodness, as generous as that of a mother (cf.  Is  66:11-13) who nourishes her child with her own body for as long as the child is unable to feed itself (cf. SAINT AUGUSTINE,  Enn. in Ps.  130, 9).

    In the same passage, Paul also speaks of “the obedience of faith” ( Rom  1:5), and here too he shares his own experience. When the Lord appeared to him on the road to Damascus (cf.  Acts  9:1-30), he did not take away his freedom, but gave him the opportunity to make a decision, to choose an obedience that would prove costly and entail interior and exterior struggles, which Paul proved willing to face. Salvation does not come about by magic, but by a mysterious interplay of  grace  and  faith , of God’s prevenient love and of our trusting and free acceptance (cf.  2 Tim  1:12).

    As we thank the Lord for the calling that changed Saul’s life, let us ask him to enable us to respond in the same way to his grace, and to become, ourselves, witnesses of the love “poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” ( Rom  5:5). Let us ask the Lord for the grace to cultivate and spread his charity, and to become true neighbours to one another (cf. FRANCIS , Homily at Second Vespers of the Solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul , 25 January 2024). Let us compete in showing the love that, following his encounter with Christ, drove the former persecutor to become “all things to all people” (cf.  1 Cor  9:19-23), even to the point of martyrdom. In this way, for us as for Paul, the weakness of the flesh will show the power of faith in God that brings  justification  (cf.  Rom  5:1-5).

    For centuries, this Basilica has been entrusted to the care of a Benedictine community. How can we fail to mention, then, as we speak of love as the source and driving force of the preaching of the Gospel, the insistent appeals of Saint Benedict, in his Rule, to fraternal charity in the monastery and hospitality towards all ( Rule,  cc. LIII; LXIII).

    I would like to conclude, though, by recalling the words that, more than a thousand years later, another Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI, addressed to young people: “Dear friends,” he said, “God loves us. This is the great truth of our life; it is what makes everything else meaningful.” Indeed, “our life originates as part of a loving plan of God,” and faith leads us to “open our hearts to this mystery of love and to live as men and women conscious of being loved by God” ( Homily at the Prayer Vigil with Young People , Madrid, 20 August 2011).

    Here we see, in all its simplicity and uniqueness, the basis of every mission, including my own mission as the Successor of Peter and the heir to Paul’s apostolic zeal. May the Lord grant me the grace to respond faithfully to his call.

  • Video Message of the Holy Father Leo XIV to the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Encyclical “Laudato si’”

    May 20, 2025 - 4:43pm
    The following is the text of the video message sent by the Holy Father Leo XIV to the Network of Universities for the Care of the Common Home, meeting at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Encyclical “Laudato si’”:

     

    Video Message of the Holy Father

    Dear brothers and sisters, I want to send this greeting, a big greeting, to the Network of Universities for the Care of the Common Home. I know you are gathered at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and that you have this beautiful occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Holy Father Francis’ document, the Encyclical Laudato si’ .

    I know you are about to carry out synodal work of discernment in preparation for COP30. You will reflect together on a possible remission of the public debt and of the ecological debt, a proposal that Pope Francis had suggested in his message for the World Day of Peace. And in this jubilee year, a year of hope, this message is so important.

    I would like to encourage you, university rectors, in this mission you have taken on: to be builders of bridges of integration between the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula, working for ecological, social and environmental justice. I thank you all for your efforts and your work. I encourage you to continue to build bridges.

    And I would like to conclude with a blessing, trusting that the grace of God may always be with you: may the blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, descend upon you and accompany you always.

    Amen.

  • Resignations and Appointments

    May 20, 2025 - 5:09am
    Appointment of apostolic nuncio in Slovenia and apostolic delegate for Kosovo

    Resignation of bishop of Paranaguá, Brazil

    Appointment of bishop of Mende, France

     

    Appointment of apostolic nuncio in Slovenia and apostolic delegate for Kosovo

    The Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Luigi Bianco, titular of Falerone, until now apostolic nuncio in Uganda, as apostolic nuncio in Slovenia and apostolic delegate for Kosovo.

     

    Resignation of bishop of Paranaguá, Brazil

    The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Paranaguá, Brazil, presented by Bishop Edmar Perón.

     

    Appointment of bishop of Mende, France

    The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Jean Pelletier, of the clergy of the diocese of Angers, until now superior of the Charles de Foucauld Preparatory House of the ecclesiastical43 province of Rennes in Saint-Pern, as bishop of Mende, France.

    Curriculum vitae

    Msgr. Jean Pelletier was born on 9 March 1963 in Saint-Sulpice, in the diocese of Angers, in the department of Maine-et-Loire, in the Pays de la Loire region.

    He was ordained a priest on 26 June 1994 for the diocese of Angers. He was awarded a licentiate in theology, specializing in biblical and systematic theology, at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

    After ordination, he first served as a member of the Segré pastoral team and the chaplaincy of public high schools of Segré (1994). After studying in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences of the Institut Catholique de Paris (1999-2001), he held the roles of cooperator in the parish of Notre-Dame-d’Èvre in Beupréau and in pastoral service in high schools (2001), episcopal delegate for the service of ordained ministers and laypeople in ecclesial mission (2006), member of the chaplaincy of the International Movement of the Catholic Agricultural and Rural Movement (2007), parish priest of Saint-Joseph-des-Basses-Vallées in Tiercé (2008), parish administrator of Saint-Marie-des-Sources-de-l’Èvre in Trémentines (2011), episcopal vicar for the deaconries of Cholet, Coteaux-de-Loire, Mauges et Lyon; parish priest of Espérance-au-Cœur-des-Mauges in Jallais (2014), moderator of Saint-Romain-les-Trois-Provinces in Le Longeron (2018); assistant to the Superior of the Charles de Foucauld Preparatory House of the ecclesiastical province of Rennes in Saint-Pern (2019), parish administrator in Candé (2021), and Superior of the Charles de Foucauld Preparatory House of the ecclesiastical province of Rennes in Saint-Pern (2022).

  • Audiences

    May 20, 2025 - 5:08am
    This morning, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience:

    - Bishop Alberto Germán Bochatey, titular of Mons in Mauretania, auxiliary of La Plata, Argentina;

    - Archbishop Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, emeritus of Trujillo, Peru.

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    Activities of the Holy Father:

    - Basilica of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls: Visit to the tomb of Saint Paul.

  • Holy See Press Office Communiqué: Audience with the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia

    May 19, 2025 - 2:09pm
    Today, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience, in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, His Excellency Mr. Anthony Albanese, who subsequently met with His Excellency Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations.

    During the cordial discussions which took place in the Secretariat of State, warm appreciation was expressed for the good bilateral relations between the Holy See and Australia, as well as for the contribution of the Catholic Church in service of society, especially in the educational sphere.

    An exchange of views then took place on the socio-political situation of the country, focusing in particular on themes of mutual interest, including environmental protection, integral human development and the freedom of religion.

    From the Vatican, 19 May 2025

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