Diocese of Des Moines

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Des Moines’ St. Ambrose Cathedral has been the site of Prairie Fire Ministries’ monthly healing services.

Iowa healing ministry temporarily suspended over ‘canonical concerns’

Aug 9, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

Prairie Fire Ministries says it received approval from its bishop in 2021. Read more

Residents continue recovery and cleanup efforts on May 23, 2024, with the help of family and friends following Tuesday’s destructive tornado in Greenfield, Iowa. The storm was responsible for several deaths in the small community.

Iowa parish still working to help tornado victims after deadly twister

May 24, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

After a tornado ripped through the small town of Greenfield, Iowa, on May 21, St. John’s Catholic Church has mobilized... Read more

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Iowa diocese bans use of puberty blockers, transgender pronouns in schools and parishes

Jan 18, 2023

By Peter Pinedo

The Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, has banned the use of puberty-blocking drugs, transgender pronouns, and the use of bathrooms... Read more

The Iowa capitol. Credit: Henryk Sadura/Shutterstock.

Iowa attorney general releases report on clergy sex abuse

Jul 2, 2021

By CNA Staff

The Iowa Attorney General’s office has released a 30-page report on sexual abuse by members of the clergy, almost exactly... Read more

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Bishop Dominique Rey (left), and Coadjutor Bishop François Touvet of Fréjus-Toulon, France.

French diocese to hold ordinations after two-year halt by Vatican

In an Aug. 2, 2024, interview, Father Marcelo Pérez revealed that a “price” had been put on his life. The priest died Oct. 20, 2024, after being shot by two men after celebrating Mass.

Murdered priest in Mexico remembered as ‘tireless apostle of peace’

The Vatican on Oct. 22, 2024, announced it had accepted the request of Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur, OFM, of Bogor, Indonesia (seen here in 2017), to not be made a cardinal at the Dec. 7 consistory as had been previously announced. The bishop’s request “was motivated by his desire to continue growing in priestly life and in service to the Church and the people of God,” the Holy See Press Office said.

Indonesian bishop declines cardinal appointment to ‘grow in priestly life’

Pope Francis meets with other delegates of the Synod on Synodality at a roundtable discussion in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Oct. 17, 2024.

Live updates: The Synod on Synodality debates the Catholic Church’s future

The Human Exploration Rover Challenge team at St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Diocese of Richmond.

Virginia Catholic school among 2 middle schools in world picked for NASA rover challenge

Father Gustavo Gutierrez Merino, OP, who is regarded as the father of liberation theology.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, ‘father of liberation theology,’ dies at 96

St. John Capistrano and St. Bernardine of Siena. Museum of Fine Arts of Granada. Painting, oil on canvas, by Alonso Cano (1653-1657) for an altarpiece of the disappeared Franciscan convent of San Antonio and San Diego, Granada.

St. John of Capistrano: Franciscan priest and missionary who achieved military victory

The archbishop of Valencia and president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, Jesús González de Zárate, and the apostolic nuncio in Venezuela, Archbishop Alberto Ortega Martín.

Church in Venezuela demands release of minors jailed in election protests

Doctors announce the Women’s Health Declaration at a press conference on Oct. 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Pro-life doctors call for dignified ‘life-affirming’ pregnancy care for women, children

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