By Jenna Ebener A reflection One of my favorite book and movie series is “Harry Potter.” In the seventh movie, ...Read More ...

Ten students in the Diocese of Davenport are recipients of this year’s Marguerite Ritzinger scholarships. These students will receive $1,000 scholarships for the upcoming fall semester: William ...

By Dan Russo The Catholic Messenger (The names of the medical students featured in this article have been changed to ...Read ...

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Soon our diocese will take up the Collection for the Church in Latin America. For more than 50 years, this collection has given Catholics in the United States an ...

To my horror, the talk was (to be) on hope for the young. I had to rewrite my lecture!” he told the crowd April 24 in the ...

By Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger IOWA CITY — College student Clare Loussaert is passionate about helping Spanish ...

Where two or three are gathered in my name — there I am with them,” Father Nicholas Akindele said to the students when ...

Fr. Lou Leonhardt Guest Column The fall of 1951 started as no other in our lives. In September, I met ...Read More ...

By John Oven Guest Column For the past 7 years, St. Wenceslaus, Iowa City, has been the only parish in ...Read More ...

It saddens me to see once vibrant Catholic parishes having to close in the Dubuque Archdiocese. It’s a combination of too few parishioners and too few priests to justify keeping the churches going.