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Sister Janis Haustein, 91, recently celebrated 70 years as a School Sister of Notre Dame. The Red Wing native — who taught science and became an accomplished organist — resides at the Benedictine Living Community in Shakopee. She plays organ at nearby St. Mark for 5 p.m. Saturday Mass and heads over to practice a couple times a week.

Andrea Urzua, an Aim Higher elementary Catholic school scholarship recipient who is now a junior at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, told a record 640 people at the organization’s 11th annual “Night of Light” gala that their support makes a difference in the lives of many Catholic elementary school students — including her.

In a partial legal win for pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics, a federal judge in Minneapolis has allowed a First Amendment challenge to proceed against the city's 2022 "abortion bubble" ordinance.

Have you ever asked God for something, but didn’t provide many details about your request? Well, that’s why I’m Catholic, and my life in his Church has been the greatest gift he has ever given me.

Can a guitar be used as a tool for evangelization?

With a beautiful sunset as a backdrop, a group of more than 50 fathers and sons stood together at St. Patrick in Oak Grove for prayer and flag raising.

Following the spark of inspiration to compose a song can keep Jacob Flaherty up late at night. But as a father of six, the 41-year-old eventually must surrender to sleep. “It’s hard to give it up,” said Flaherty, director of sacred music at Holy Family in St. Louis Park. “I pray, ‘Well, Lord, you’re the inspiration behind this in the first place, so if you want it to continue, give it to me tomorrow when I’m well rested.’”

A nonprofit group of private donors in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has signed a purchase agreement to buy a property on 700 acres in northwestern Wisconsin to be used for a Catholic summer camp for middle schoolers and for conferences, retreats and faith and science camps used by parishes and schools in fall, winter and spring.