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Archdiocese of Dubuque announces Journey in Faith pastorate models
5+ hour, 35+ min ago (181+ words) Telegraph Herald. com St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Dubuque, Iowa on Saturday, April 11, 2026. Several eastern Iowa parishes will lose weekend Mass under a plan announced Saturday morning by the Archdiocese of Dubuque. The archdiocese announced 24 new pastorate groupings as part…...
Dellaert: Are we running to urgently spread the good news?
14+ hour, 50+ min ago (198+ words) Telegraph Herald. com Each year for Holy Week and Easter, our thoughts dwell on the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. If someone were to say, "It's a matter of life and death," we would naturally assume it refers…...
Local Contemporary Way of the Cross participants 'pray with our feet"
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (864+ words) Matt Rissler carries the cross as participants in a Contemporary Way of the Cross walk along Bluff Street in Dubuque on Friday. Participants in the event walk through Washington Square in Dubuque. Various other sites in the city also were…...
Flashback: Good Friday changes affected Dubuque-area Catholics 70 years ago
1+ week, 1+ day ago (527+ words) In 1956, the Easter Bunny came to visit youngsters at St. Mary's Home and brought treats for everyone. A liturgical change affected Dubuque's Catholic worshippers during Holy Week 70 years ago. A decree issued by Pope Pius XII enabled the laity to…...
Canon law speaker draws crowd to discuss Archdiocese of Dubuque merger plan
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (919+ words) About 275 people gathered Thursday at Old 20 Auctions in Manchester, Iowa, to learn about canon law, which governs the Catholic Church, and how it applies to parish mergers. People from 15 counties were in attendance Thursday night at Old 20 Auctions in Manchester,…...
After a renovation, Pope Leo XIV moves into the papal apartment eschewed by Pope Francis
3+ week, 6+ day ago (325+ words) ROME " Pope Leo XIV moved into the newly renovated papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace on Saturday, taking up residence in the flat that was famously eschewed by Pope Francis. The Vatican said Leo would be joined by his closest…...
In Minnesota, U. S. cardinals and pope's ambassador decry mass deportations, call for reconciliation
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (971+ words) Archbishop Bernard Hebda and Cardinals Robert Mc Elroy, Christophe Pierre and Joseph Tobin celebrate a mass in solidarity with migrants at the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas on Friday in St. Paul, Minn. ST PAUL, Minn. " Two American cardinals and…...
Area Catholics voice concerns as Journey in Faith process continues
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (184+ words) Telegraph Herald. com Wayne Brunsman speaks about the Archdiocese of Dubuque's Journey in Faith plan during a Save Our Churches Save Our Communities event at Dyersville Social Center in Dyersville, Iowa, on Wednesday. A crowd of about 110 attended. DYERSVILLE, Iowa…...
Catholic Church, Italy investigate cherub seemingly modeled on Meloni
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (491+ words) A detail of a restored chapel with Angels depicted on a fresco to the memory of late Italy's King Umberto II inside the Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina in Rome. ROME " There is a long tradition of painters depicting…...
Rev. Kruse marks 45 years in priesthood, much in Archdiocese of Dubuque
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (745+ words) The Rev. Phil Kruse (right) is ordained by Bishop Maurice Dingman, of Des Moines, at the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Dyersville, Iowa, on Jan. 30, 1981. The Rev. Phil Kruse when he was ordained in 1981. The Basilica of St. Francis…...