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Bishop Izen answered questions posed by The Catholic Spirit.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill April 20 that will eliminate the state's requirement that juries in capital punishment cases agree unanimously to recommend death sentences, lowering the number of jurors needed to hand down a death sentence to the lowest threshold of any U.S. state.

Bishop Michael Izen’s episcopal motto: “God with us,” reflects the trust he places in the Lord and Jesus’ presence in the Eucharist.

When Bishop Michael Izen’s appointment as auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis was announced Jan. 5, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said it was providential that the soon-to-be-bishop's titular see would be Neoportus, or Newport, in South Wales.

In the weeks before his ordination, Bishop Michael Izen shared a few of his favorite things:

Jan. 12, 1967, born to the late John and Joanna Izen of Fairmont in the Diocese of Winona (now, Winona-Rochester), the youngest of their six children.

Few pedestrians were on the sidewalks of Summit and Lexington avenues in St. Paul on the morning of April 22. Fresh snow flurries rested on the frozen ground while a bitter wind swept the Twin Cities. 

The Catholic Church in the U.S. has made progress over the past two decades in confronting sexual abuse against minors within the church, but has only begun to address the vulnerability of adults to sexual abuse by clergy, religious and lay leaders, experts told OSV News.