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More than 200 gather near State Capitol to begin 54-day rosary novena

More than 200 people, many bearing signs and posters with the Blessed Virgin Mary’s image, and each one holding a rosary, prayed for more than an hour at a park near the State Capitol in St. Paul Aug. 15 as they began a 54-day rosary novena for peace and healing in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, racial tensions and political divisions.

Father Sthokal served for decades at Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House

Jesuit Father Edward Sthokal, who served for decades at Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House in Lake Elmo, died Aug. 11 at St. Camillus Jesuit Community in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He was 98.

Catholic schools prepare for in-person learning, with flexibility as needs arise

Brandi Brandstrom of St. Timothy in Maple Lake knows what she wants for her children this fall, even during the novel coronavirus pandemic: in-person learning at St. Timothy’s School.

Archdiocesan Synod 2022 – The Church Prepares

19 Prayer and Listening Events · 11 focus events · 8,173 participants. 35,026 comments

Archdiocesan Synod 2022 – This present moment

At the beginning of May, I shared with you that I was poring over the input that had been gathered at the 2019-2020 Pre-Synod Prayer and Listening Events and through the Disciple Maker Index survey. Not surprisingly, your feedback was superb and really insightful. Thank you! I was happy to learn that so many of you share my assessment that there are many indicators of vibrancy in our archdiocese, but we could be strengthened and enriched by a Synod process that would intensively address a limited number of targeted areas.

Archdiocesan Synod 2022 – What’s next

Year 2: The Church Prepares

Archdiocesan Synod 2022 – How we got here

Year 1: Listening to each other and the Holy Spirit

Catholic baker’s sweet treats make occasions ‘a little more meaningful’

Genevie Alejandro never expected her future in the baking entrepreneurial world to begin with a bishop.

Teens hide in cellars: Aid official tells of conditions in eastern Ukraine

A senior Catholic aid worker said humanitarian conditions are deteriorating in eastern Ukraine and urged Western governments and churches not to forget the continuing six-year conflict.

Listening to women can save lives during pandemic, sociologist says

Women in Ghana and other West African nations have suffered disproportionately during the global COVID-19 pandemic in large part because they have been excluded from positions of power and decision-making, a Catholic sociologist said.

Iowa Catholics pray for workers at meat-packing plant who died of COVID-19

A small group of deacon formation classmates, parishioners and family members stood across the road from Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Columbus Junction July 24 and prayed Morning Prayer (Lauds).

Pandemic has revealed how often human dignity is ignored, pope says

The coronavirus pandemic has shed light on other, "more widespread social diseases," particularly attacks on the God-given human dignity of every person, Pope Francis said.
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