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...
UPON THIS ROCK Read on blog or Reader Pope, President, & Peace By Father Don Farnan on April 14, 2026 While leaders of the world try to carry out their jobs to make their country a better place, so does the pope have his job in guiding the universal church to...
The fifty days of Easter celebrated in Christianity each year mirror the fifty days of the first disciples following the death of Jesus. During that time, the acts of the Apostles changed from those of despairing lost souls to those of courageous people of faith. It...
