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

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

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

Sister Anthony Worrell, OSF, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Christ the Divine Teacher, joins us just in time for Catholic Schools Week. She talks about her vocation, her work teaching religion ...

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

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

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

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

By Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger College and high school students from the Diocese of Davenport joined thousands of ...

DAVENPORT — For decades, children in the Diocese of Davenport supported children in need around the world through the Holy ...

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 ...