A nonprofit group of private donors in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has withdrawn its offer to purchase 600 acres north of Stillwater from the St. Paul-based Wilder Foundation for a Catholic youth camp.
The director and pastoral minister of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ American Indian Ministry and the parish central to that ministry, Gichitwaa Kateri, recently retired. His successor said he is ready to walk with the community in its challenges and opportunities.
A delegation from Kilkenny, Ireland, paid a visit to Calvary Cemetery in St. Paul Sept. 8. They wanted to soak in some history that ties the two cities together.
“Who do you say that I am?” welled up inside me as I stood at the foot of Mount Hermon, in the Caesarea Philippi region of the Holy Land, where our Lord asked this question of his Apostles.
Father Chad Van Hoose, pastor of St. Jude of the Lake in Mahtomedi, said being one of six sites in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to host relics of St. Jude the Apostle is historic.
Sister Fidelity Grace, who took her final vows Aug. 5 with the Sisters of Life in New York, was a Center for Catholic Studies undergraduate student at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul from 2008 to 2012.
With more than 1,600 alumni, including 225 priests and religious, and hundreds living their lay vocations, the Center for Catholic Studies program at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul has been educating and forming future leaders “to see Christ in all that they are and in all that they do” for the past 30 years.