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Father Austin Barnes, looking up at 10 works of sacred art recently installed on ceiling panels in St. Mary in Stillwater, explained that St. Mary Magdalene is the only one of the subjects not looking out at the viewer; rather, her eyes are lowered, trained on a Sacred Heart side shrine.

Cynthia Bailey Manns, one of the original members of the Lay Advisory Board that advises Archbishop Bernard Hebda and adult learning director at St. Joan of Arc in Minneapolis, is one of 10 non-bishop voting delegates chosen by Pope Francis to represent the North American region at the first general assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality in October.

Ukrainian military chaplains told OSV News they're standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their troops across a long front line, while readying themselves for a post-war ministry of healing throughout their nation.

Sisters Carolyn Puccio and Lynore Girmscheid worked side by side for several years in their roles at the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, with their workstations next to each other at the Archdiocesan Catholic Center in St. Paul. Then, they stepped down from their posts together at the end of June.

After five years as executive director of Mendota Heights-based The Catholic Cemeteries, Joan Gecik is retiring Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis.

A hand-painted icon of Sts. Anne and Joachim accompanied nearly 100 marriage formation leaders during a June 26-28 conference, where they explored new ways, namely a catechumenal model, to form men and women for their vocation to marriage.

After a 5-4 Supreme Court decision struck a blow to the Navajo Nation's request for federal assistance in securing water for the reservation June 22, Catholics who minister among Native Americans shared their thoughts on the historic water crisis facing the Southwest U.S. and the Indigenous populations who live there.

A Texas man has received 90 consecutive life sentences for carrying out one of the deadliest attacks ever on Latinos in the U.S.