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ACCW to honor four laywomen

Four women from across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis are being honored by the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women for parish-level involvement with their respective councils, parishes and communities. Recipients of the 2022 Laywoman Volunteer Award will be formally recognized April 29 at the ACCW’s 89th annual convention at St. Albert in Albertville. The following information was provided by the ACCW.

Synod Assembly will draw 500 to Cretin-Derham Hall school Pentecost weekend

Prayer, presentations and discussion. Catholics who have participated in any part of the three-year 2022 Archdiocesan Synod process are unlikely to be surprised by the core elements of the Synod Assembly, scheduled for Pentecost weekend, June 3-5, at Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul.

Livestream of ‘Frassati’ April 6 explores life of sainthood candidate

Pier Giorgio Frassati was an avid mountaineer, engineering student and political activist in Turin, Italy. He also was deeply devoted to the poor, his family and the Eucharist.

‘Laudato Si’’ inspires Catholic inroads in caring for creation

Many Catholics will identify with some aspect of Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for our Common Home,” and the more they learn about environmental issues, the better chance they’ll get involved in sustainability efforts, said panelists at a March 29 forum on the subject at Annunciation in Minneapolis, organized by the Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota.

Father Francis Pouliot remembered as ‘a great man of God’

Father Francis Pouliot had a slogan he would often repeat during the 22 years he served as pastor of Visitation in south Minneapolis: “Well begun, half done.” These words stayed with Dan Gleason, who served as principal of Visitation School during all of those 22 years. He would hear them during the first week of classes, when Father Pouliot celebrated Mass and tried to help students understand the importance of getting off to a good start.

Determined to help his family, music director at Minneapolis parish crosses into Ukraine

Learning that his mother’s health had deteriorated in his native Ukraine, Yuri Ivan, music director at St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church in Minneapolis, caught “the first plane” he could March 18 as he sought to cross the border into the country Russia had invaded only weeks before.

UST professor creates organization to infiltrate war-torn country with much needed supplies

Paul Gavrilyuk gets about four hours of sleep a night. It’s a wonder he gets any sleep at all. The Ukraine native and theology professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul is working around the clock to help his native country, which he left in 1993 but has family and friends still living there.

A tragic loss leads Hampton family to deeper faith

At 1 a.m. on a Sunday 16 months ago, Taylor Tix of Hampton received a phone call from her best friend with the worst kind of news: Her husband of 15 months, Colton, was in an accident a couple of miles from home. She needed to get to the scene immediately. And contact his parents.
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