Looking to align your professional skills with your faith? We’re hiring an Associate Director of Stewardship Development based from Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, or Waterloo, Iowa. Apply today: Send your cover letter and resume to Kristin Fjelde at [email protected].

Prayer and therapy are not competitors. Grace works through medicine the way it works through everything else God made. If you are struggling, tell someone this week.

As we prepare for All Saints’ Day, we celebrate the holy men and women who inspire our students to live lives of faith, virtue, and service. Our Catholic schools help form the saints of tomorrow.

Thanks to all who supported the Church’s global missionary work through this fall’s “Our Call to Share!” Your generosity makes a real difference. This twice-yearly appeal will be back next spring to lift up charitable organizations across the U.S. and here in the Archdiocese.

They asked Him to rank 613 commandments. He gave them two and said everything else hangs on them. Not a shortcut... a spine. If a religious practice is not making you love God and people more, something has gone wrong.

Have you found this to be true?

Mary's example calls us to move beyond our comfort, draw near to the most vulnerable among us, and cherish human life from conception to natural death. Mary, Mother of Life, pray for us.

A lawyer, then a Franciscan preacher, and at seventy a man riding with an army at the siege of Belgrade. Sanctity has no retirement age.

There is still time to join others in supporting the global ministries of the Catholic Church beyond our borders. Please return your “Our Call to Share” collection envelope to the offertory basket as soon as possible. Thank you!

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These were the opening words of his pontificate in October 1978. He said them to a Church that was frightened, and he meant them for a world that still is.

Joys of the Journey is a new monthly series highlighting the good work emerging from our pastorate collaborations. This month, learn how the pastorate model is giving priests the opportunity to increase their presence in schools: dbqarch.org/news/classroom-t…

He founded the Passionists to keep the memory of Christ’s suffering alive in a Church that finds it very easy to look away.

WE'RE HIRING! Apply for the Associate Director of Stewardship Development role by sending your resume and cover letter to Kristin Fjelde at [email protected].

“Christ has no body now but yours.” – St. Teresa of Ávila Our Catholic schools form young people to live out the Gospel as Christ’s hands and feet. Students are encouraged to put their faith into action by serving others, showing compassion, and sharing God’s love in all they do.

French Jesuits were martyred in the seventeenth century in what is now New York and Ontario. Jogues went back after being tortured and losing his fingers. He knew exactly what was waiting.

Want to grow in your spiritual life but struggle with discouragement? Come hear renowned author and speaker on the spiritual life, Fr. Timothy Gallagher, OMV, share how to overcome spiritual discouragement. Learn more at dbqarch.org/institute-events.

World Mission Sunday. The Our Call to Share collection supports the global ministry of the Church beyond our borders... priests, catechists, schools, clinics. One Church, one mission, everywhere at once.

He wrote that on the road to Rome and to his death, begging the Christians there not to rescue him. He is the first writer we know of to call the Church catholic.

A quiet Visitation nun in Burgundy whom almost no one believed at first. The devotion to the Sacred Heart that has shaped centuries of Catholic prayer began with visions the world was ready to dismiss.