We, like Joseph, are invited to empty ourselves, choosing to abandon anything that can get in the way of our union with God or our collaboration with God's design for creation.

God has given birth to a creation capable of participating in divine life. Jesus gave a replicable witness to that truth.

Dan Chalk is managing editor of the Midland Daily News. He was born in Midland and graduated from Midland High School in 1989 and from Adrian College in 1994. He had a six-year teaching career both ...

For years, Hollywood has presented stories based on the bible as epic, larger-than-life events. They’ve often been overly serious, occasionally dull, and rarely relatable. (Anyone remember the NBC ...

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Light shines through the Holy Spirit window in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this file photo. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec) The church is slowly reviving a treasure of the past, the Pentecost ...

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Have you ever been transported by a story so powerful that it engages your imagination and emotions so much so it feels as if you are actually experiencing it? Readers Theater at the Miners Foundry ...

A special prayer was delivered at Holy Name Cathedral Sunday for Pope Leo XIV. The church held its first Sunday mass since the pope was elected on Thursday. Many who attended said they are praying for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Sunday blessing at St. Peter's Basilica. The faithful also worshipped Sunday at Holy Name Cathedral, where the new pope was honor with a special ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and ...

Chicago Sun Times newspaper headlines after Chicago native Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, published on May 9, 2025. (Credit: Melina Walling/AP.) Listen A Chicago-born cardinal ...