As a seminarian in 1980, Pope Leo XIV lived at least three months in Minneapolis and developed a friendship with a Lutheran classmate and his wife that lasts to this day.
Pro-Life Action Ministries of St. Paul, with legal assistance from the Thomas More Society, has secured the right in Minneapolis to enter the driveway area of a public sidewalk as it reaches out with literature and life-giving alternatives to people entering or leaving abortion facilities.
A native of Minneapolis and priest of 30 years with the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis –– Father Kevin Kenney — has been named an auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese.
In 1941, just six months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the last National Eucharistic Congress was held — in St. Paul in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Allison Spies, the archdiocese’s archives program manager, noted that the month of June 83 years ago saw record-breaking heat and rainfall.
On the day after Thanksgiving, 1949, a group of Catholic women walked expectantly through the front door of 2321 Blaisdell Ave. in Minneapolis and were greeted by nuns in habits featuring distinctive purple capes.
Pouring his talents into faith-based projects has been a driving force for Jeromy Darling since his conversion to Catholicism five years ago. “I made a decision that my charisms were not to be used for anything other than the kingdom, and I could no longer be a cog in the machine for some capitalist company looking to make someone else rich,” said Darling, 42, a father of four and member of Holy Cross in Minneapolis.
In a partial legal win for pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics, a federal judge in Minneapolis has allowed a First Amendment challenge to proceed against the city's 2022 "abortion bubble" ordinance.
Moments of silence, tolling of church bells, prayers in a video led by Archbishop Bernard Hebda and other faith leaders, speakers and a social gathering are part of a 9/11 Day of Remembrance at the State Capitol in St. Paul on Sept. 11.
C.J. McGowan greeted 61 students getting off two buses at Ascension School in Minneapolis July 9 as they returned from a week at Catholic Youth Camp near McGregor, about two and a half hours north of the Twin Cities.
Gov. Tim Walz ended pandemic-related social distancing restrictions and group size limits at places of worship May 28. But on June 6, Annunciation in Minneapolis began offering one Mass each weekend with COVID-19-related restrictions still in place.
When John Ireland dedicated St. Joseph Church at North Fourth Street and Eleventh Avenue in Minneapolis on Sept. 15, 1889, it was not yet completed, but it was already beautiful. Its white brick and sandstone structure was like no other building in the city, with imposing towers on both front corners of the building. Inside, there was seating for 1,200.
A Holocaust survivor named Murray Brandys shared his experiences at a Social Justice Awareness Week 18 years ago at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis.
