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Harrison Butker doubles down on commencement speech at Catholic gala
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 28, 2024 / 17:10 pm Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker doubled down on his May 11 Benedictine College commencement speech comments during a Catholic home schooling association’s gala in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday. “If it wasn’t clear that the timeless Catholic values are hated by many, it …
Harrison Butker supported by Kansas City bishop, prominent Catholics amid speech backlash
By Joe Bukuras CNA Staff, May 16, 2024 / 18:37 pm Prominent Catholics are voicing their support for Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker after he delivered a commencement address to graduating students at Benedictine College on May 11 that touched on hot-button issues, causing outrage among the left-leaning media and commentators. Butker, …
Chiefs’ Harrison Butker chides Catholic leaders in Benedictine College commencement address
By Matt McDonald CNA Staff, May 14, 2024 / 11:38 am Kansas City Chiefs’ placekicker Harrison Butker offered some pointed criticism of Catholic bishops and priests along with advice to college graduates in his commencement address at Benedictine College on Saturday. Catholic bishops should be more like St. Damien of Molokai …
Winner, winner, Rice-A-Roni dinner? Bishops bet on the Super Bowl
By Joe Bukuras CNA Staff, Feb 10, 2024 / 06:00 am It’s a tradition for the Catholic bishops from the two cities sending teams to the Super Bowl to make a friendly wager before the big game. With the Kansas City Chiefs back in their fourth Super Bowl in five years …
Serenelli Project honored with $10,000 reward
The Serenelli Project, a prison re-entry apostolate based in Sedamsville, was awarded a $10,000 prize for winning the inaugural To the Heights Award, presented by American holding company MDKeller and the University of Notre Dame’s Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate. The award’s judges sought organizations that have a bold vision, …
NFL’s Harrison Butker, Notre Dame give $10,000 to group creating ‘monastic village’ for ex-prisoners
By Joe Bukuras CNA Staff, Nov 11, 2023 / 06:00 am An initiative to help former inmates reenter society and grow in their Catholic faith is the winner of a $10,000 award sponsored by the University of Notre Dame and MDKeller, the holding company of two-time NFL champion Harrison Butker. The …
The Serenelli Project wins the MDKeller Award
The Serenelli Project, a local Catholic prison re-entry apostolate, won the inaugural MDKeller “To the Heights” award presented at the Notre Dame University’s Church Properties Conference on October 30th. MDKeller is an American holding company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Kansas City, Missouri, co-founded by two-time Superbowl champion Harrison Butker, …
NFL kicker Harrison Butker and Notre Dame to reward innovative use of Church property
By Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Sep 5, 2023 / 12:06 pm Super Bowl champion Harrison Butker is teaming up with the University of Notre Dame to offer a $10,000 award for the innovative use of Catholic Church property in light of societal and demographic change. In partnership with Notre Dame’s Church …
NFL champ Harrison Butker makes a statement with pro-life necktie at White House visit
By Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Jun 6, 2023 / 15:15 pm During the Kansas City Chiefs’ visit to the White House on Monday in celebration of their Super Bowl victory in February, the team’s kicker, Harrison Butker, made a statement in support of the unborn by wearing a custom-made necktie with …
Harrison Butker offers grads some ‘hard truths’ about family, faith, and cancel culture
By Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., May 8, 2023 / 10:30 am Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker offered graduating college students a wake-up call on Saturday. “I’m about to pop off some hard truths,” the two-time Super Bowl champion said as the commencement speaker at his alma mater, Georgia Institute of …