The Catholic Spirit

17/07/2025

Years after his beheading, the saint’s head was buried in a vault with the body of his daughter, Margaret Roper, at St. Dunstan’s Anglican Church in the city of Canterbury in the southeast of England.

The Church of England is weighing plans to exhume and enshrine the head of St. Thomas More , the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, in time for the 500th anniversary of his 1535 martyrdom.

16/07/2025

David Riehl, administrator of the French company that published the archdiocese’s 175th anniversary book and graphic novel, looks over the anniversary book at the Archdiocesan Catholic Center in St. Paul.

Catholics might have seen them in their parishes this summer: books with 529 pages of photographs, words and illustrations outlining the 175-year history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and…

16/07/2025

Following Mass there will be children’s games, food vendors and at 7 p.m. the Archbishop’s Inaugural Bean Bag Tournament will begin, said Father Ryan Glaser, parochial vicar of the Cathedral.

Archbishop Bernard Hebda will preside at a 5:15 p.m. Mass July 19 at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul celebrating 175 years of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis bringing Jesus to the…

16/07/2025

Riding in a gray Volkswagen sedan, the pope first went to the local headquarters of the Carabinieri, a branch of the Italian military specialized in police work, to celebrate Mass in their chapel. The corps was marking the 75th anniversary of Pope Pius XII’s proclamation of the Virgin Mary, “Virgo fidelis,” as their patron saint.

As part of his summer break, Pope Leo XIV visited members of the Italian Carabinieri in Castel Gandolfo and the Poor Clares in nearby Albano Laziale.

16/07/2025

"We see this first in what came to be called the Magnificat (Lk 1:46-55). This is the song of praise that Mary sings when she visits Elizabeth. We are not used to thinking of Mary as the revolutionary type. But what she says suggests she is someone who is waiting for a new social order"

Recent columns have addressed the background to Jesus’ proclamation of the “kingdom of God.” We’ve looked at the Old Testament, the Maccabean Revolt and popular revolutionary movements in Jesus’ day.…

16/07/2025

“I was praying and asking God to help me figure out my next path,” said Rogers, a member of St. Ambrose in Woodbury. “This emerged as a strong pull: to create a solution for what I saw as a real problem: lack of professional support for parents after the birth of their baby.”

Hallie Rogers was once a new mom, crying in the bathtub with stitches and a landline, asking her mom, “What did I get myself into?” Now the 42-year-old Maplewood mother of four is helping other moms…

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15/07/2025

Meet our St. John Paul II team! Please keep all Totus Tuus missionaries and the parishes hosting them this week in your prayers as they share the joy of the Gospel with youth and families.

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The figures represent a huge increase in abortion within a decade, since in 2012 abortion ended 20.84% of conceptions — a fifth of all pregnancies.

Nearly one in three conceptions in England and Wales end in abortion, newest government figures have revealed. Statistics on annual conceptions released July 9 by the Office for National Statistics…

15/07/2025

What does a longtime musician, troubadour, rock and roll hall of fame inductee and contemplative Catholic do for an encore? If you’re Dion DiMucci, you just keep on making new music, and singing the praises of a Christ-centered existence.

DiMucci, known throughout his nearly 70-year recording career by his first name Dion, distinguished himself from many rock and roll colleagues in the late 1960s by publicly recommitting himself to his Christian faith.

15/07/2025

“Christian hope always urges us to be more daring, to think big, to be dissatisfied with things the way they are,” the pope wrote in his message for World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, a church celebration that will take place July 27.