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I am Catholic because my parents are Catholic (and their parents were Catholic, and so on). They had me baptized as a baby, and created a loving, faith-filled home. We regularly attended Mass as a family and received the sacraments. We had family rituals, traditions, pastimes, and shared meals — sacramentality in the domestic church at its finest.

May 15, Gov. Tim Walz signed into state law legislation that, in part, adds a new religious exemption to the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA).

Five eighth-grade students are set to graduate from St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic School in Delano this year — the first eighth-grade graduating class since 1975 when the school was St. Peter's Catholic School.

A feature documentary set for release in June aims to draw moviegoers to a deeper understanding of the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Katharina Barden, 11, a fifth grader at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Savage, was sitting in the back of her family’s car when she told her mom, Stacie, that she wanted to “get Catholic.”

Almost a thousand years ago, the Church faced a crisis. There were open challenges to the belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Berengar of Tours, a prominent scholar, taught that Jesus was spiritually present and not bodily present in the Eucharist. In response to this crisis, there was a flowering of devotional practices and theological reflections that reinforced Catholic faith.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, spoke about the late Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, founder of Catholic Rural Life (CRL), at the May 8 celebration of the organization’s 100th anniversary at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. He called the founder “perhaps the most influential leader in Catholic agrarianism.”

No mom would ever want to spend Mother’s Day like this: in a hospital room with a 7-year-old son paralyzed from the waist down and told by doctors he might never walk again.