It’s a busy time of year for St. Paul residents Susan and John Neuville, parents of five children, including two teenage girls. As the?school year began, they faced a growing stack of permission slips and release forms for their children’s sports clubs and activities.??
Encouraging Catholics to lead the way and inspire others to join the effort, the Minnesota Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of Minnesota’s Catholic bishops, embarked this month on a multi-year campaign to build up the family while strengthening charity and justice in society.
The Eucharistic Revival is not merely an event or program, but a way of drawing people into what the Church teaches is the source and summit of the faith.
After 30 years as president and CEO of Our Lady of Peace — the free Catholic hospice in St. Paul with a home health care staff — Joe Stanislav is preparing to step down. His final day is Dec. 30. The 65-year-old — a member of St. Ambrose in Woodbury — is planning to spend more time with his wife, Pam, their three daughters and their 12 grandkids.
Not long after visiting his ailing mother in Ukraine and returning to Minnesota last spring, Yuri Ivan, music director at St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church in Minneapolis, received “minor orders” from the bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago.
The state of Minnesota’s first woman and non-physician commissioner of health, president and CEO of a major hospital, and delegate for religious in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis — Sister Mary Madonna Ashton was all those things and more, colleagues, fellow religious and a family member recall.