April 12, 2023

Leaning on Prayer in Difficult Times

Joyce Rupp April 12, 2023

Through prayer I began to sense the one I trusted was always with me, albeit now in a quieter way.

Police deploy at the scene of a mass shooting near Slugger Field baseball stadium in downtown Louisville, Ky., April, 10, 2023. A gunman opened fire at a bank in downtown Louisville that morning, killing at least four people and sending nine to the hospital before he died by gunfire at the scene, Louisville Metro Police Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said. (OSV News photo/Michael Clevenger, USA Today Network via Reuters)

Archbishop, governor call for prayer as Louisville mourns mass shooting

OSV News April 12, 2023

Amid calls for prayer and praise for first responders, officials confirmed that four people were killed in an April 10 mass shooting, Easter Monday morning, in a downtown bank in Louisville, Kentucky.

How to Unbecome

Natalie Ryan April 12, 2023

Reflect Our life’s pilgrimage can get muddied rather easily with expectations, opinions, and norms of society. St. Francis is a great example of how to “unbecome” things of this world so that we can become who God made us to …

Carry the Light

Diane M. Houdek April 12, 2023

One of Pope Francis’s favorite distinctions is the difference between joy and mere happiness.

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