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For all the positive energy and enthusiasm at the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart July 19, it wouldn't be a surprise if Olympic-bound swimmers and alumnae, Katie Ledecky and Phoebe Bacon, could hear the exuberant cheers and applause all the way from Tokyo.

June 26 was a day of excruciating waiting for Joe Schroeder.

St. Joseph the builder might find it interesting that parishioners of St. Joseph in New Hope and Plymouth worship each Sunday in two very different churches in separate cities, more than four miles apart.

Karan Blackmer, 54, of St. Peter in Forest Lake said that as she enters into the Secular Franciscan Order, she is responding to God’s call to live fraternally, dive more deeply into her faith, and serve and sacrifice for others.

The life-size figures of 140 people of different cultures, races, eras and ages are all huddled together tightly in a boat. There’s a Cherokee man, an African slave, a young child, a pregnant woman. The fact that they’re cast in bronze only emphasizes their expressions and postures.

To the casual observer, it may appear as though Galen Rupp has lost a step as he placed sixth in the men's 10,000-meter final during the U.S. Olympic Trials in June.

A July 15 executive order from Gov. Tim Walz restricts a practice he describes as “conversion therapy.” But Jason Adkins, executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, views it as a counseling ban that denies young people who struggle with gender discordance and same-sex attraction access to the psychological sciences that could help them live in harmony with their bodies and with a healthy, rightly ordered sexuality that promotes human flourishing.

Highlighting the importance and gifts of older people has been a constant refrain throughout Pope Francis' ministry.