Iowa Archives

Congress ‘allows God to settle in our hearts,’ priest tells attendees

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 23, 2019

Despite news reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would arrest several thousand immigrants in the country without documents July 13, attendance was not impacted at the charismatic congress sponsored by the Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa.

Des Moines bishop retires; priest of Dubuque named successor

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 18, 2019

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, and named as his successor Father William M. Joensen, a priest in the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa.

Iowa attorney general seeks Catholic sex abuse records

Associated Press, Church in the US
Jun 4, 2019

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller is asking Catholic officials in Iowa to provide records on clergy sexual abuse so his office can launch a third-party review.

Asylum-seeker from Nicaragua credits new home in Iowa to prayers

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Apr 8, 2019

Darwin Josue Mejia Montoya could have been shot during protests in Nicaragua last year. He also could still be languishing in a detention center in Arizona, after escaping the violence. But Montoya credits prayers — particularly to Mary — for enabling him to be one of the few individuals granted asylum in the United States from the Central American country.

Iowa bishop calls King’s racist rhetoric ‘totally inappropriate’

Church in the US
Jan 16, 2019

Following an Iowa congressman’s remarks on white supremacy, Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa labeled them as “totally inappropriate.”

Diocese says Iowa priest who threatened rape has recovered

Associated Press, Church in the US
Nov 28, 2018

A Catholic diocese on Wednesday defended its decision to continue employing a priest who told police he was trying to rape a woman when he was arrested naked in an Iowa mall in 2013.