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Tommies are NCAA champs
More than 600 take part in the Rite of Election
» Planned to pledge?
» Award to trustee couple
» Catholic ed up $344,956
» Basilica youth take honors
» New acolytes instituted
» Hill-Murray’s top teacher
» New Maronite patriarch
Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph elect new prioress
St. Matthew anniversary
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Kudos to Father McDonough
Father Kenneth Ludescher celebrates 50th anniversary
» Cathedral music director
» School gets paintings
» Spirit staffer returns
» Parishioners help feed poor
Catholic Spirit kicks off centennial celebration
The Catholic Spirit began its yearlong centennial celebration Jan. 6 with a morning Mass at St. Paul Seminary, followed that evening by “The Great Catholic Get-Together of 2011” at Nicollet Island Pavilion in Minneapolis.
About 250 guests, along with the staff and board of directors of The Catholic Spirit, sampled appetizers while learning about the history and future of the newspaper through standing displays and interactive web presentations.
Third-graders raise funds for Guatemala mission
Third-graders at Transfiguration Catholic School in Oakdale raised $2,137 from a second-hand sale last week to help pay for the education of children at Transfiguration’s mission parish in Guatemala. Teacher Colleen Mosley organized the annual fundraiser 12 years ago after going on a medical mission trip to San Lucas Toliman in Guatemala.
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Proceeds from priest’s collection of top columns will benefit Haiti
Father Bernie Reiser now has a published book of the best columns he wrote during the three decades he was pastor at Epiphany in Coon Rapids.
Among the projects Reiser Relief has taken on are a center caring for abandoned women who have no place to live, and a school program that has built classrooms and where children receive a daily meal at school. It has assisted in building and supporting medical community centers and sanitary blocks for sewage and provided support for clinics and small hospitals in Cite Soleil.
St. Thomas Academy fetes four with Fleming Award
St. Thomas Academy presented Fleming Alumni Veteran Awards to four alumni to recognize their honorable service in the U.S. military and dedication to the academy. The awards were presented during a Veteran’s Day assembly Nov. 11 at the Mendota Heights school, which included an address by Maj. Gen. Richard C. Nash, the adjutant general for Minnesota and head of the Minnesota National Guard.
Minnesotan who is Carmelite monk ordained a priest
Carmelite Brother Michael Mary of the Trinity was ordained a priest on Oct. 15 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Cheyenne, Wyo., by Denver Bishop James Conley.
Award to honor couple for educational philanthropy
The Catholic Community Foundation will present its 2010 Legacy of Faith Award to Jerry and Delores Slawik during a banquet Oct. 27. The annual award is given to an individual or family in recognition of their leadership and philanthropy in support of the spiritual, educational and social needs of the Catholic community.
Youth trip planned to national March for Life
The archdiocesan Office for Marriage, Family and Life is organizing a trip to Washington, D.C., for high school students to participate in the annual March for Life. The trip, which runs from Jan. 21 to 25, will include the march, a day at the Students for Life Conference and a day visiting historical sites.
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