Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda is continuing his call for prayers a woman was pronounced dead following a shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis Jan. 7.
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Posted inFaith in Focus
A pilgrimage to Pope Leo’s childhood home
One Jesuit’s encounter with a cop, a cat and several fellow Catholics in search of a connection to the first American pontiff.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A patron saint for migrants in the rural Midwest
Msgr. Luigi Ligutti, an immigrant priest who served other migrants in Iowa, teaches us to look toward rural America, its old residents and new arrivals alike, with sympathetic eyes.
Posted inFaith, News
Prominent Chicago priest Michael Pfleger accused of sexual abuse of minor
A Catholic priest who gained national fame as an activist has been asked to step away from his ministry while allegations that he sexually abused a minor decades ago are investigated.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Yes, J. F. Powers wrote about priests. But his real subject was America.
Powers’s chosen subjects—in cassocks or nay—are inevitably All-American, and his stories are careful studies of American mid-century life and ambition.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Prison policy that barred Catholic priests from visiting inmates struck down by Wisconsin judge
A Wisconsin judge ruled against the state prison system on Thursday, saying its Covid-19 visitor policy that barred Catholic clergy from meeting with inmates for more than a year violated religious freedom.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Jon Hassler put Catholics’ complicated fear around Vatican II into his novels
Jon Hassler wrote novels that examined with infinite compassion the lives of the residents of small-town Minnesota.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
On the road again: William Least Heat-Moon’s ‘Blue Highways’ turns 40
Forty years after its publication, Jon Sweeney revisits ‘Blue Highways’ and its iconoclastic author.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Too many Americans are forgotten or misunderstood. ‘Our Towns’ tries to change that.
“People’s lives are complicated every place you look, and just as complicated as your own life is,” says author and director James Fallows.
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
An American Catholic Pilgrimage
Daniel Hornsby’s debut novel, ‘Via Negativa,’ is the story of a Roman Catholic priest on the road to many destinations, both material and spiritual.