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On March 19, Sister Angela Schreiber celebrated her 60th jubilee, commemorating six decades of service as a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

Kathryn Kueppers was shaking in the final moments before the 2019 Miss Minnesota was named June 22.

Families, teens and young children can take advantage of long summer days to relax a bit more. Spend time together. Read. And learn more about the faith. All at the same time, even!

Catholic schools’ combination of quality education and faith formation brings value to students, parishes and the wider community, but financial and social barriers to Catholic education remain for some families, including a growing Latino population, experts noted at a June 25 forum on education sponsored by the Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota.

Rapson was then the dean of the University of Minnesota’s architecture school and a notable Modernist architect. Among his designs were the original Guthrie Theater, which opened in 1963 on the grounds of the Walker Art Center, as well as the Cedar Square West complex now known as Riverside Plaza, both in Minneapolis. He also designed furniture, including the “Rapson Rapid Rocker” in 1945 for Knoll Furniture.

Longtime residents of Northeast have fond memories of growing up in the historically Catholic part of Minneapolis, affectionately known as “a small town in the big city.” They share stories of games of hide-and-seek with 50-plus kids in the neighborhood park. They can tell you the names of the members of every family that lived on their block. And they recall how on Sunday mornings, nearly every family in the neighborhood would walk to their respective ethnic parish, beckoned by the call of church bells that rang out from the 12 Catholic churches and chapels in or on the borders of Northeast.

As part of the merger, St. Michael’s sacramental records will transfer to Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is less than 2 miles away.

The decision came after the archdiocese in 2016 received information suggesting a possible misuse of funds at Gichitwaa Kateri, where Deacon Damiani was serving, Archbishop Hebda said. The archdiocese reported the information to law enforcement, which concluded in May that no charges would be filed.