Each month Pope Leo, like Francis before him, offers a prayer intention inviting the universal church to join him in lifting up a particular petition. The solemn requests range from broad topics like world peace, immigration, and homelessness to specific appeals like...
Crowned It’s exciting news in Kansas City that the Royals may relocate near the city center. And it is exciting news within the Catholic Community that the proposed site is next to one of its iconic churches, Our Lady of Sorrows, on historic Dutch Hill (Deutsche...
Rosary Health The Catholic Church has many devotional prayers, e.g., the Stations of the Cross, Lectio Divina, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Novenas, the Divine Mercy Chaplet, the Angelus, etc., but most popular through the ages is the Rosary, which gets...
This Good Shepherd Sunday marks the interregnum anniversary when we were without a pontiff. Pope Francis died the morning after Easter Sunday (April 21) while the college of cardinals gathered soon thereafter to elect his successor, Pope Leo XIV (May 8). Francis was...
In their famous 1988 song, Fairytale of New York, the Pogues tell the story of a young Irish man and woman who fall in love with each other while dreaming of fame in America. After exchanging romantic expressions of infatuation and fantasy, things go south and they...
