FROM THE ARTICLE Archbishop Carlson calls for peace as grand jury says no indictment for Ferguson police officer : “I implore each of you: ...

CHARLES LUCAS, second-generation French-American, and a settler in the Saint Louis region before Missouri statehood, owned a considerable...

POPE FRANCIS  exhorts: …There are so many conflicts in this world which cause me great suffering and worry, but in these days my heart i...

FIRST, I would like to offer again my congratulations and my love to my parents on the occasion of their 60 th  anniversary of marriage, ...

FROM THE UNITED STATES ARMY: Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun, while assigned to Headquarters Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, d...

The Archbishop of Saint Louis, the Most Rev. Robert Carlson, with the V. Rev. Douglas W. Marcouiller, Provincial of the Missouri Province ...

(Vatican Radio) The Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI will come to an end with the Sede Vacante (“Vacant See”) beginning at 8pm Rome time (7...

...The decision I have made, after much prayer, is the fruit of a serene trust in God’s will and a deep love of Christ’s Church. I will con...

“...WITH FULL FREEDOM I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals...

READERS FREQUENTLY ask me if they can purchase prints of the photos found on this website; while I am always happy to provide prints, thi...

A PHOTOGRAPH of a replica of the H.M.S. Bounty , which I took in Chicago, Illinois, in August, 2003. This ship was lost during Hurrican...

THE CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY is an organization that seeks to help strengthen Catholic identity in higher education. The other day they pu...

A REPORTER VISITS the ruined Cathedral of Mogadishu, Somalia; see the article Somalia's graveyard of grand and beautiful buildings , ...

THE ECONOMY IS tanking again. There are some people who say this doesn’t matter much. Some clever traders tell us that they can earn as...

FROM A PEER-REVIEWED journal comes an article Wholesome Foods and Wholesome Morals? Organic Foods Reduce Prosocial Behavior and Harshen M...

SAD NEWS: The recent spate of tornadoes in the U.S. midwest has caused great damage, including the destruction of Saint Joseph’s Church, ...

A RECENT NEWS article reveals a rather shocking and previous unknown side of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). In Octobe...

AN EMAIL FROM a parishioner of Saint Mary's Church, in Brussels, Illinois, informed me that the church was destroyed by a fire that s...

A NEW TREND: banning children from public places. See the article, The no-kids-allowed movement is spreading . From the article: When d...

IF YOU ARE reading this, then you haven't been raptured! Poor Harold Camping and his followers, getting their hopes dashed. We really o...