Ahead of the bishops' spring assembly, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington has appointed Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, to help implement a planned multiyear National Eucharistic Revival.
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.
Spring, summer and better weather also mark the arrival of “wedding season,” the time when many engaged couples are married. It is an excellent time to shift the topic of this “Faith Fundamentals” column to a series on the sacrament of marriage. Marriage is one of the seven sacraments, and with holy orders is one of the two sacraments of commitment. The grace it provides keeps couples strongly bonded in love, and it maintains the strength of their union. It is vitally important to the couple, their families, the Church and society.
Put simply, my need to know the truth is why I’m Catholic. To be clear, I don’t mean secular truth — I needed to know which Christian communion had the fullness of truth I longed to embrace.
Father Christopher Collins will serve as vice president for mission at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul beginning July 1. The 49-year-old Jesuit priest, who attended UST in the early ’90s, replaces Father Larry Snyder, who is retiring from the position after assuming it in 2015.
Minnesota’s Catholic bishops have reinstated Catholics’ obligation to attend Sunday Mass and holy days of obligation, beginning the weekend of July 3-4.
School is done and summer has begun. But between registering kids for sports and mapping family road trips, I've had to catch myself. Where could we seek and find God in this new season, too?
Prayers, the kind only a child can make, were on display on a table of pleas written by migrant children near a small statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, as bishops from the U.S., Mexico and Central America gathered June 1 in Mundelein.