Sasha Kirk, 15, a freshman at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis, said in April she sometimes talked with friends during lunch about the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death last year of African American George Floyd, which set off waves of protests and riots in the Twin Cities and around the country.
“Throughout this next year, every parish and deanery is to participate in the consultation process, discerning together how we can grow in unity and more vigorously proclaim the Gospel, guided by these focus areas,” he said in the decree.
On Jan. 1, 1961, I was baptized at St. Mark’s church in St. Paul. I was 5 days old, the youngest of seven children and a cradle Catholic. I was born in the final days of pre-Vatican II life in the midst of Irish Catholic culture in the great city of St. Paul.
Cities varied and so did parishes on COVID-19 precautions in mid-May as vaccination against the deadly disease began to become more prevalent and statewide restrictions were eased on masks and social distancing.
During the May 20 episcopal ordination and installation of Duluth's 10th bishop, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis confessed that he was "experiencing some envy" over new Bishop Daniel J. Felton getting to minister in northeastern Minnesota.
Father John Ubel spied an adult gray fox scurrying around the grounds of the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul last week. The Cathedral rector took note of the urban vixen, but didn’t give it much more thought — until he found her kit in the Cathedral’s 15-foot window well late May 14. The baby fox had been crying and was starving.
Pulled over by police, nervous and unsure of what to do? There’s an app for that, thanks to the work of an Academy of Holy Angels alumnus and his partners.