Second-grader Elenore Staples didn’t feel nervous as she and two of her classmates were baptized during the Jan. 5 school Mass at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Vermillion, even with at least 100 of the school’s students, family members and others present.
Archbishop Bernard Hebda welcomed a nearly packed house to a vespers service the evening before Bishop-elect Joseph Williams’ Jan. 25 episcopal ordination. The archbishop’s remarks in English and Spanish reflected the languages spoken by the evening’s guests at the largely Latino St. Stephen parish in Minneapolis, where Bishop Williams has served as pastor since 2008.
Addressing more than 2,000 people at the annual Prayer Service for Life in the Cathedral of St. Paul, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said Jan. 22 the nation could be on the brink of a “post-Roe world” in the battle against abortion.
A wind chill of minus-20 greeted Father Michael Daly and his hockey team, the St. Helena Crusaders, as they began play Jan. 21 at the 17th annual U.S. Pond Hockey Championships on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis.
With the start of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session Jan. 31, among the top policy priorities for the Minnesota Catholic Conference will be stopping efforts to legalize sports betting in the state, increasing support for nonpublic school students and ensuring the budget surplus is used to benefit one of the state’s most important resources: families.
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, the Little Sisters of the Poor continue their vigilance in taking care of the elderly poor who live in their Holy Family Residence in St. Paul.
University of St. Thomas student Emilee Wondra is working to build a culture of life on her campus in St. Paul. For this, she will be recognized with a St. John Paul II Champions for Life Award, an initiative of the Office of Marriage, Family and Life of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
An anonymous bomb threat via voicemail early Jan. 18 at Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield prompted an evacuation and police search, but no explosive device was found.