(Editor’s note: Rachel Luppens, St. Wenceslaus Parish in Iowa City’s director of community engagement, recently interviewed ...

By Dan Russo Editorial This week the world mourns the loss of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM. The team chaplain ...Read ...

By Anne Marie Amacher The Catholic Messenger REBOOT your faith with stories, Scripture and reflections by Chris Stefanick ...

By Sam Aitchison The Church is Alive! Every once in a while, there’s a coincidence in my life that seems ...Read More ...

To fit with this year’s groovy Pancake Day theme, “Peace, Love, and Pancakes,” St. Mary Parish titled its float “Pancakes, ...

We invite youths in grades K-6 in the Diocese of Davenport to participate in our annual contest to create a ...Read More ...

By Anne Marie Amacher The Catholic Messenger Faithful from throughout the Diocese of Davenport watched as one of its own ...

The longtime coach and father of three all-state athletes knows the joy of winning, and the heartbreak of coming up short, but “the main thing is to keep things in perspective,” he said. “Sports are ...

By Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger “He was qualified to coach and teach, and yes, this man could even preach!” ...Read More ...

DAVENPORT — Back in 2017, Tammy Norcross-Reitzler created a chapel tour “scavenger hunt” for her new student seminar class at ...

BETTENDORF — Emphasizing the woman, not the choice, led to a rebranding of the name and logo for Bettendorf’s pro-life center this summer. The Woman’s Choice Center added “the” and changed women’s to ...

Bishop Thomas Hennen, a former priest for the Davenport Diocese, stops by to discuss his September 29, 2025 ordination as a bishop and installation as the head of the Diocese of Baker in Oregon. The ...