Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Catholics in southeastern Iowa have strong bonds to their local parishes. Those parishes ...

St. Wenceslaus Parish in Iowa City is grateful for the gift of art and its ability to connect people to the Catholic faith.

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Overall enrollment for preschool through senior year in high school was up 252 students compared to last school year. “One of ...

By Kim Novak Guest Column Who are the people that silently, invisibly, animate the threads of our lives? Those who ...Read ...

By Barb Arland-Fye Faith on a Journey My mom asked me to look through a couple of sacks of greeting ...Read More ...

Enrollment in Iowa’s Catholic schools has also increased overall in the 2025-26 school year, according to the Iowa Catholic Conference (ICC), the public policy arm of Iowa’s bishops. “As of October ...

By Hal Green Pondering Prayer Not only is there little knowledge of God in our land today; there is also ...Read More ...

Father Catich’s art generated both praise and controversy. In the 1950s, his piece “Theophora” stirred up people when on display at a New York City museum because it depicts an interracial Mary and ...

Porcupines, now absent competition for winter forage, and enjoying the more mild winters, exploded in population…for a time. That is, the time it took the fisher to shift its hunting strategies from ...

By Anne Marie Amacher The Catholic Messenger RIVER FOREST, Ill. — Nine campus ministers and students from Iowa explored how .

By Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger In a recent Catholic Messenger Conversations recording, Bishop Dennis Walsh spoke ...