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Barbara and Jerry Bovy met in the first grade at Holy Spirit School in St. Paul nearly 80 years ago.

“I have come to know him in his great work as Diocesan Administrator of the Diocese of Rapid City and am confident that he will be a faithful servant and shepherd to the people of northeastern Minnesota, building on the ministry of Bishop Paul Sirba,” Archbishop Hebda said of Bishop-elect Mulloy.

Jim Mengel, 91, watched neighborhoods in the Twin Cities burn from his room at Cerenity Senior Care in White Bear Lake after the May 25 death of George Floyd, an African American who died while pinned under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer.

“Multiple women have reported to us that Haas is skilled at making his targets feel spiritually affirmed, seen, and loved, with a keen understanding of how that spiritual intimacy can then be exploited sexually,” Krehbiel wrote.

When Father Joseph Johnson speaks about the sacrament of the anointing of the sick with an elderly or ill parishioner, he sometimes has to get creative.

Seventeen-year-old Rebeca Atenco‘s family lost everything to fire May 27, when their apartment along Lake Street in Minneapolis was torched. The only thing her family recovered was a container with the remains of a baby brother her mother miscarried in 2009. Ashes pulled from ashes.

After nearly 10 years at the helm of Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, president and CEO Tim Marx said June 12 he is starting the hard work of stepping away. The search for a successor and the process of handing over the reins will take the rest of this year and into 2021, he said.

Dominican Father Gerald Stookey saw firsthand the unrest following the death of George Floyd. He is pastor at Holy Rosary in Minneapolis, which joins St. Albert the Great as the closest parishes to the epicenter of four days of riots on Lake Street than began after Floyd's May 25 death. He was among pastors surveying smashed windows, burned down businesses and looted stores.