Commentary

Only two things are certain in life: death and taxes, as the saying goes. However, our state government must accomplish one other thing: a budget. And, it must be balanced, so says our state’s constitution. This is currently what our state Legislature is trying to sort out.

If you look closely at the north side of the library building at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, you might notice the words “Our Lady of Peace” etched in the lintels above some of the doorways.

The opposite of division is multiplication. The opposite of subtraction is addition.

The gospels in early Ordinary Time of Year B are taken from the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, and the texts from Week Four to Week Seven constitute a vertical thread, a spiritual concept or theme that connects a set of readings over a series of weeks.

Believing lies Inflammatory rhetoric Building relationship Simple approach Why say nothing? Outstanding resource Do better than sound bites Fueling the fire  Pipeline 3 Project concerns 

If there were ever a year as a Catholic Christian to go on a journey with St. Joseph — most just, most chaste, most prudent, most courageous, most obedient, most faithful — to both learn and experience his litany of attributes, we are in it.

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St. Angela Merici was born on March 21, 1470, in Desenzano in the territory of Lombardy, the Republic of Venice, in northern Italy. She was orphaned at the age of ten and then moved with her sister to Brescia when they were raised by their uncle. Her sister died a short while later. She entered the Third Order of Saint Francis at the age of thirteen, chose to embrace an austere lifestyle, and received the sacraments frequently.