The U.S. bishops approved by a wide margin a plan to draft a document to examine the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church" following a lengthy debate during their spring general assembly.
Eighty years ago, Paul Ditter boarded a school bus with his fellow classmates at Holy Name of Jesus School in Medina, heading to a special destination: the Pontifical Mass for Children at the Ninth National Eucharistic Congress.
At 29, Julia Coleman is the youngest Minnesota state senator in office, serving District 47. She’s also the mother to three boys under age 2. Her Catholic faith sustains her. The Chanhassen resident attends nearby St. Hubert as well as the Cathedral of St. Paul, where she and her husband, Jacob, were married.
In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia's foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents.
In the 1850s, the founding families of St. Joseph in Red Wing — many of them German immigrants still mastering English — welcomed into their homes a priest with a French accent who came monthly on horseback to say Mass.
Two Conventual Franciscan friars celebrated the first Sunday Mass for the newly formed St. Bonaventure parish Feb. 8, 1959, at Cedarcrest Elementary School in Bloomington. Friars had arrived at the parish that January, fulfilling a promise to Archbishop William Brady and establishing a presence that has lasted more than six decades. Father Finnegan served as the first pastor.
YouTube, Facebook, parish websites — all now offer livestream Masses from parishes across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. But before COVID-19 hit Minnesota in March 2020, most of those parishes had never livestreamed a single Sunday Mass.