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After nine years directing the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ Office of Ministerial Standards and Safe Environment, Tim O’Malley will transition Aug. 1 to part-time assistant for special projects for Archbishop Bernard Hebda.

Kathleen Mishow spent nine years praying to St. Kateri Tekakwitha for another child after she and her husband had a son 18 months after they married.

Assumption in St. Paul will be home to a new and innovative center seeking to spread Catholic social teaching across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

A year ago, Nicole Bettini got an email from Sister Carolyn Puccio, who at that time was the delegate for consecrated life in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Sister Carolyn was planning to step away from a role she had held for 10 years, and asked Bettini to give suggestions for a replacement.

Recently, a visitor to a Wisconsin monastery entered a dimly lit chapel to pray. He noticed near the altar a mysterious, folded parchment in a brass reliquary with a faded wax seal. The monks seemed unsure of the reliquary’s contents or origin. The visitor’s curiosity was piqued, and the abbot gave him permission to temporarily remove and investigate the packet.

Being Catholic is the most important thing in my life. I cherish my faith in Jesus as he is the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through him. I long to join him in heaven, and what better way than to belong to the Church that he established, that traces its origins back to Peter, the rock upon whom the Church was built?

Father Michael Joncas said he now realizes how important a pastor is for a new priest — in his case, it was Father William...

A 1964 newspaper article illustrates the qualities Father John Siebenaler brought to his priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He died July 9 at the age of 88.