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Vatican News
Aid trucks reach Gaza amid intensified Israeli strikes on West Bank
January 21, 2025 - 11:04amAid trucks continue to deliver supplies to Gaza on the third day of the ceasefire as Israel launches sustained attacks in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
The lambs of St Agnes: An ancient tradition of the Roman Church
January 21, 2025 - 9:10amKeeping with an ancient tradition, two lambs are blessed on the feast of Saint Agnes at the basilica bearing her name on Via Nomentana in Rome – the traditional site of her burial. The wool from these lambs will be woven into palliums for new archbishops, continuing a sacred tradition deeply rooted in history.
Cardinal Sako: 'Working together is a sign of the unity Churches already share'
January 21, 2025 - 8:08amIn a message for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the head of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church highlights the unity already existing among Christians and calls for closer collaboration, including on peace, justice and human rights issues.
Christian Unity week: Believers 'brought together by faith in the triune God'
January 21, 2025 - 7:41amVatican News speaks to two students at Geneva’s Bossey Ecumenical Institute about their week-long visit to Rome during the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
South Africa: The Jubilee Year will bring Catholics closer to Christ, says Archbishop Buti
January 21, 2025 - 6:26amArchbishop Emeritus and Apostolic Administrator of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Johannesburg, Buti Joseph Tlhagale OMI, has said the 2025 Jubilee Year is an occasion "for all Catholics to renew their faith."
Parish Flocknote
Food Collection Weekend - Feast of the Epiphany
January 10, 2025 - 2:01pmMonthly Food Drive Because of the weather last weekend, the Monthly food drive has been extended to this weekend. The Cathedral Parish collects foodstuffs and canned goods for delivery to food pantries in the area. Food...Closing Cathedral Early today - FRIDAY
January 10, 2025 - 10:47amDear Parishioners, Due to the current inclement weather, we regret to inform you that the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis will be closing following the 12:05 pm Mass today, Friday. We apologize for any inconvenience this may...Closing Cathedral Early today - FRIDAY
January 10, 2025 - 10:31amDear Parishioners, Due to the current inclement weather, we regret to inform you that the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis will be closing following the 12:05 pm Mass today, Monday. We apologize for any inconvenience this may...Closing Cathedral Early today
January 6, 2025 - 11:23amDear Parishioners, Due to the current inclement weather, we regret to inform you that the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis will be closing following the 12:05 pm Mass today, Monday. We apologize for any inconvenience this may...Weather Update
January 5, 2025 - 7:19amI hope this message finds you well. We wanted to inform you of the current weather conditions at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. The sidewalks have been cleared of snow and are safe to walk on, but the parking lot is still...
National Catholic Register
Catholic Church Leaders Raise Their Voices for Peace in the Middle East
January 21, 2025 - 3:48pmBASHAR TALEB A boy walks with a humanitarian aid package provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in al-Shoka, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 21, 2025, following a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Palestinian territory.The Jan. 18 ceasefire was welcomed by Pope Francis and local Church leaders in Israel and Gaza.
Pope Francis Emphasizes ‘Ecumenical Vocation’ of All Christians
January 21, 2025 - 2:00pmVatican Media Pope Francis meets with an ecumenical delegation from Finland on Jan. 20, 2025, at the Vatican.The Holy Father stressed that bearing witness to the incarnate love of Christ 'is our ecumenical vocation, in the communion of all the baptized.'
In Bid to ‘Put America First,’ Trump Again Withdraws U.S. From Paris Climate Accord
January 21, 2025 - 1:49pmChristopher Furlong U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade at Capital One Arena on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C.The order directs the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to submit a withdrawal notice to the United Nations itself and for multiple U.S. departments to rescind policies related to the plan.
Cardinal Dolan Reminds the Nation of the Preeminence of Prayer
January 21, 2025 - 1:43pmPool/Saul Loeb Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York delivers the invocation during the inauguration ceremony of President Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC.Cardinal Dolan’s inauguration invocation shows that fervent prayer is the linchpin in the ongoing American experiment.
Laken Riley Act Passes Senate As Catholic Bishops Urge ‘Meaningful Immigration Reform’
January 21, 2025 - 11:43amFair Use Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student, was murdered while she was jogging at the University of Georgia.Riley would have turned 23 years old on Friday, Jan. 10.
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.