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The bishops will stand outside the Cathedral along Selby Avenue 2-4 p.m. April 4. People wishing to receive a blessing are asked to stay in their cars with their windows rolled up.  

A positive COVID-19 test involving an opponent has ended Hill-Murray's defense of its Class 2A championship in the Minnesota Boys Hockey State Tournament.

The closet, it turns out, is the ideal recording studio for this busy mom. “Hanging clothes all around you is really good for acoustics,” Bandzuch says with a laugh.

Michael Ahles, president and CEO of St. Paul-based Catholic United Financial, presented Joleen Olson with a ceremonial “big check” March 19 for the $20,000 grand prize she won in CUF’s annual Catholic schools raffle.

Everybody has a story. But not every group of people going through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults together has traveled such varied paths to the Church as those preparing for the Easter Vigil this year at St. Mary and St. Michael in Stillwater.

“It’s Lent, so we’re supposed to think about these things,” Father Rutten said, “and especially, racism can be one of those things we’re unconscious of, so it’s just a nice time to reflect on it and say, ‘What difference can we make?’"

Residents, family members and employees of Duluth-based Benedictine Living Communities gathered March 23 for a virtual remembrance and renewal service in honor of residents who died the past year and to acknowledge all employees.

In the mid 1990s, Ben Johnson was an eighth-grader seeking admission to DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis. Even then, the school’s admissions director, Mike O’Keefe, himself an alumnus (1978), saw potential that resulted in, more than two decades later, Johnson being named the men’s head basketball coach at the University of Minnesota March 22.