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What started during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to lift spirits and provide something unique to the students at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in the Diocese of St. Cloud is turning into a tradition.

The desperate cries of an animal in distress haunted Father John Ubel for an entire weekend last spring. They first reached his ears from a window well at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul May 14, 2021. He was strolling the grounds on a Friday evening when the shrill noise startled him.

Off and on, since the COVID-19 pandemic began and in-person instruction resumed, St. Joseph School counselor Suzanne Krumpelman in Fayetteville has spoken to students to gauge how they are coping.

In an email to the St. Thomas community, President Julie Sullivan said her decision to leave was “difficult” and “one which I have spent a long time discerning and praying about,” citing personal reasons that swayed the move. She noted that her husband, Bob, is in California, and she has adult children and four grandsons who live near Santa Clara.

Condemning violence and expressing his concern for and solidarity with Ukraine, Pope Francis has not uttered the word "Russia" publicly.

Jeanne Meyer strongly advocates praying for peace in the face of what she called the “the evil that has taken over” as Russia’s military continues an assault on Ukraine that began Feb. 24. Meyer, 71, put her prayers to work with about 90 others Feb. 27 at a vespers service for peace at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.

When I was 13, I went on a church youth retreat and felt strongly that God was calling me to be a pastor. I was Lutheran and imagined that after going to college, I would go straight to seminary.

Sandra Williams Ortega was stunned to see two high-ranking ROTC leaders standing on her front porch as she was coming home from classes at Morgan State College in Baltimore.