Diocesan News

Chancery Profiles: Glenn Leach

Chancery Profiles: Glenn Leach

Name:  Glenn Leach Job title: Volunteer with the Social Action and Immigration offices. Contact information: leach@davenportdiocese.org What is your role …Read More


Eucharistic procession returns to downtown Iowa City

Eucharistic procession returns to downtown Iowa City

By Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger IOWA CITY — Each year on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Catholics in Father …Read More


People

Persons, places and things: Enjoying God’s creation

Persons, places and things: Enjoying God’s creation

By Barb  Arland-Fye Editor A winding corridor populated thickly with trees, bushes and plants enhances the peacefulness and beauty of …Read More


Persons, places and things: A conversation with Fr. Ross Epping

Persons, places and things: A conversation with Fr. Ross Epping

By Barb Arland-Fye Editor Father Ross Epping told me during our Catholic Messenger Conversations podcast earlier this month that our …Read More


Features

Question Box: Posture for receiving Communion

Question Box: Posture for receiving Communion

Q: What is the correct posture for receiving Communion? At my parish I have noticed more people genuflecting before receiving …Read More


Question Box: Explaining ‘real presence’

Question Box: Explaining ‘real presence’

Q: Growing up as a Catholic and attending Catholic schools, I never recall hearing the term “real presence” to describe …Read More


Opinion

Proposed Farm Bill must revisit priorities

Proposed Farm Bill must revisit priorities

By Barb Arland-Fye Editorial On May 24, the House Agriculture Committee passed a proposed $1.5 trillion Farm Bill — the …Read More


Parish practices for an increased sense of belonging

Parish practices for an increased sense of belonging

By Patrick Schmadeke Evangelization in the world today Springtide Research Institute studies the intersection between religious and human experience of …Read More