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As rector of the Baltimore Basilica for the last five years, Father James Boric has been a whirlwind of ministry.

The Catholic Spirit is honored to highlight and celebrate milestone jubilees of women’s and men’s religious communities who are serving or have served in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Office of Communications, Minnesota Catholic Conference each take home four awards

Sister Jill Laszewski was clipping along in a successful telecommunications career in the early 1990s when a mission trip to Nicaragua caused a major redirect — toward a religious vocation with the School Sisters of Notre Dame. This year marks the 25th anniversary of her first profession of vows to the order.

Serving at a parish in an inner-city, dangerous part of Miami that included?being held up at gunpoint is among the memorable moments of Father Richard Sudlik’s 50 years of priesthood in the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.?

Pope Francis has named Bishop Chad W. Zielinski of Fairbanks, Alaska, to head the Diocese of New Ulm.

He noted that he got to know Bishop Zielinski while leading the Diocese of Gaylord, Michigan, where Bishop Zielinski was a priest, from 2009 to 2013. Bishop Zielinski was ordained bishop of Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2014. 

A district court judge struck down five laws July 11 limiting immediate access to abortion in Minnesota, a decision criticized by the Minnesota Catholic Conference as putting the health and safety of abortion seeking pregnant women at greater risk.