Patricia Heaton: ‘I Feel Very Connected to God When I’m Performing’

| 11/26/2025

By: Mary Shovlain

As part of The Good Newsroom’s Faith of Artists series, Emmy-winning actress Patricia Heaton reflects on how her Catholic faith informs her creativity. In this short video reflection, she shares how portraying characters and building stories is a spiritual experience.

“Our God is a God of creation,” she says. “And I feel very connected to God when I’m performing.”

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Celebrated during Holy Week, the Chrism Mass draws priests from across the archdiocese into a visible sign of unity with their bishop.

By:

Mary Shovlain

| 04/01/2026

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The Good Newsroom spoke with a retired priest at the Cardinal O’Connor Residence, Father Brian McCarthy, to discuss what Lent looks like at our archdiocese’s center for retired priests.

By:

Patrick Grady

| 04/01/2026

On Good Friday, let's hang a towel over a dining room chair. Let this serve as a reminder of the image Christ depicted of Himself as a gift for Veronica, as well as the suffering He endured as a gift for our salvation.

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Father Bob Pagliari, C.SS.R., PH.D.

| 04/01/2026