Katie Yoder

Washington, D.C., United States

Contributing Editor at Our Sunday Visitor

Contributing editor @OSV. @UVA grad. Pursuing the good, true & beautiful through storytelling, with a focus on pro-life issues. ✍🏼 Isaiah 49:15. Opinions mine.

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Leaders in foster care, adoption look at post-Roe landscape for their ministries

3 weeks ago | thebostonpilot.com | Katie Yoder |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe

Your browser does not support the audio element. (OSV News) -- When Kimberly Henkel and her husband, Greg, first welcomed a baby boy into their home through fostering, they realized in a new way that children are a gift. "He wasn't ours, but what we realized is that no child is truly ours," she told OSV News. "Whether we give birth to this child, whether we foster this child, whether we adopt this child, we get the privilege of taking care of this child and loving this child ...
Seeking pop stardom, Cristina Bernal found God instead

3 weeks ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Katie Yoder

Along the way, after stepping away from another record deal in 2011, she felt called to lead worship and serve communities nationwide at conferences, retreats and parish missions while continuing to create music. She does this today with Novum Records, where she focuses on worship, liturgical and contemporary Christian music. Bernal also belongs to Novum Collective, a band of Novum Records artists, and is preparing to release a new album with music for the Mass in August.
St. Thérèse relics tour U.S. in 2025

3 weeks ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Katie Yoder

Before dying, she promised to spend her heaven doing good on earth. St. Thérèse became well-known through her autobiography, “Story of a Soul,” read by millions. Today, she is one of four women named a Doctor of the Church for her significant contributions, and her words appear multiple times in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Texas Supreme Court permits Annunciation House probe to proceed

4 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Katie Yoder |Carol Glatz

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton can move forward with his investigation into El Paso's Annunciation House, a Catholic nonprofit serving migrants, the Texas Supreme Court said May 30.
Meet the founder of 'the world's biggest Catholic record label'

4 weeks ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Katie Yoder

Since his experience in adoration, Hickl — a husband, father, worship leader, producer, songwriter, DJ, author and software professional — has enabled artists to create hundreds of songs. Earlier this year, the record label also celebrated after its music appeared on a Lenten playlist by Hallow, the Catholic prayer app. Today, Hickl says, Novum Records has more than 500 songs in its catalog and more than 130 releases.
Decisions, relationships, actions must be rooted in nonviolence

4 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Carol Glatz |Katie Yoder

Promoting peace requires training people's hearts and minds to be concerned about others and perceive the common good, Pope Leo XIV said. "Our children and young people need to be able to experience the culture of life, dialogue and mutual respect. Above all, they need the witness of men and women who embody a different and nonviolent way of living," he said during an audience at the Vatican May 30.
Thousands of Vatican Library manuscripts to be restored and digitized

4 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Katie Yoder |Heather King

More than 80,000 ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library will be restored and digitized thanks to an agreement with the Colnaghi Foundation. The initiative seeks to preserve unique documents and facilitate worldwide access to this treasure of the Church. The shelves of the Vatican Library house a large part of humanity’s literary legacy. They include more than 82,000 manuscripts and 1.6 million printed books (more than 8,000 of them “incunabula,” which means those printed before 1501).
'A little heaven on Earth': St. Thérèse relics tour US in 2025

4 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Katie Yoder |Heather King

Catholics nationwide are invited to encounter St. Thérèse of Lisieux in a special way during an upcoming visit of her relics to the United States this fall. The relics or remains of the 19th-century Carmelite nun -- one of the most beloved saints in the world -- will make more than 30 stops in 10 states and Washington, D.C., in 2025, a year that marks the 100th anniversary of her canonization and the Jubilee Year of Hope. The two-month journey begins Oct.
Leaders in foster care, adoption look at post-Roe landscape for their ministries

4 weeks ago | catholicreview.org | Katie Yoder

When Kimberly Henkel and her husband, Greg, first welcomed a baby boy into their home through fostering, they realized in a new way that children are a gift. “He wasn’t ours, but what we realized is that no child is truly ours,” she told OSV News.
LA priest taught by future Pope Leo: 'We saw him as very human'

1 month ago | angelusnews.com | Theresa Cisneros |Mike Cisneros |Katie Yoder

When Father Walter Paredes was in the seminary in Peru, a handful of close-knit Augustinian teachers and priests helped in his formation as a future priest. But one stood out from the rest for his biblical knowledge, his ability to unite people, and his empathy: Father Robert Prevost. Paredes, now associate pastor at Mary Immaculate Church in Pacoima, told Angelus that the future Pope Leo XIV was his canon law professor at San Carlos and San Marcelo Seminary in Trujillo, Peru.