My parents helped me begin my spiritual journey with baptism soon after I was born. During my growing up years, my family attended Mass and confession, Friday Benediction and said the rosary together. I attended Catholic schools from kindergarten through college.
Claire Bona, 30, stepped down from her teaching position at St. Agnes School in St. Paul to be a stay-at-home mom, but she jumped at the chance to write a play for the sixth graders.
Archbishop Bernard Hebda and Bishop Joseph Williams joined Pope Francis, brother bishops and the faithful around the world March 25 in prayers for peace and the consecration of Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Why am I Catholic? The simple answer to this question: I was born into a loving Catholic family in the mid-1950s. Some refer to this as being a cradle Catholic. The deeper answer comes with the question, “Why am I still Catholic?”
With a lowered risk of transmitting COVID-19, facial coverings, social distancing, and avoiding large gatherings during Mass or other liturgical gatherings will no longer be actively encouraged effective April 1 in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, according to a March 24 memo from the archdioOffice of Worship.
An upcoming move by the School Sisters of Notre Dame will bring more than 100 sisters into the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis from their current location in the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, at Our Lady of Good Counsel campus in Mankato.
Dean Rademacher participated in not one, but two Parish Synod Leadership Team meetings — one at St. Joseph in New Hope, where he works as the parish director, and the other at his home parish, Guardian Angels in Oakdale. The consultations were the final step in the 2022 Archdiocesan Synod process before the three-day Synod Assembly in June.