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by bcadmin | Oct 15, 2022 | Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Eucharist, News, Processions | 0 |
Hundreds of Catholics, led by the bishops of the dioceses of Davenport in Iowa and Peoria in Illinois, participated in the first bistate eucharistic procession to cross the Mississippi River, united in faith and love for the Eucharist.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | Africa, African bishops, Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Poverty | 0 |
A Vatican diplomat in southern Africa warned that deprivation and poverty among the laity could obstruct Pope Francis’ vision of synodality in the region, where the challenges are widespread.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 1, 2022 | awards, Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Davenport diocese, Immigration, News, Pacem in Terris, Sister Norma Pimentel | 0 |
Sister Norma Pimentel visualized the tear-streaked, weary faces of people she serves at the border during her acceptance speech for the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award April 21 in Davenport.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 13, 2022 | Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Davenport diocese, News, Sister Nathalie Becquart, Synod, Synod of Bishops | 0 |
An idea began brewing in Patrick Schmadeke’s head as he listened to an interview with Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart on the Synod of Bishops in 2023 and the process leading up to it.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 5, 2021 | Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, diocese of Davenport, Environment Ecology, Iowa, Laudato Si, News | 0 |
Delia Moon Meier, an executive of an Iowa company that runs “the world’s largest truck stop,” wants to make patrons driving electric vehicles feel just as comfortable as long-haul truckers filling their rigs with diesel fuel.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2020 | Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Iowa, Iowa Catholic Conference, News, prison justice, prison reform, Prisoners | 0 |
More than 40,000 people in Iowa who have completed sentences for felony convictions have regained the right to vote and run for office because of an executive order signed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2020 | Archdiocese of Dubuque, Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Bishop Walker Nickless, capital punishment, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, DACA, Death penalty, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, diocese of Davenport, Diocese of Des Moines, Diocese of Sioux City, Executions, immigrants and refugees, immigration laws, immigration reform, Iowa, Iowa Catholic Conference, News | 0 |
Iowa’s Catholic bishops are taking a prominent stand on three pressing federal issues, one involving the imminent execution of four federal death-row inmates, another on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and the third on the asylum system.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 3, 2020 | Abortion, Abortion law, Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, diocese of Davenport, Iowa, Iowa Catholic Conference, News, the pro-life movement, waiting | 0 |
A Johnson County district court judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of the state’s new law requiring women to wait 24 hours before having an abortion, the Iowa Catholic Conference reported July 1.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Worker Movement, Church in the US, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Department of Homeland Security, diocese of Davenport, Guatemala, immigrants and refugees, Iowa, News | 0 |
Davenport Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula has asked the chief of Homeland Security in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to release three Guatemalan immigrant detainees because the COVID-19 pandemic “places immigrants being detained in a very vulnerable situation.”
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