"Parents want him badly” is among handwritten notations in an arrivals and departure record from 1889-1890 from the Catholic Industrial School in Clontarf.
As the United States begins to confront this chapter of its history, so does the Catholic Church. According to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) — which has compiled what is generally regarded as the most comprehensive, albeit admittedly incomplete list of U.S. Indian boarding schools — at least 84 of the 367 identified schools were run by Catholic institutions through contracts with the U.S. government. A group of Catholic archivists researching the topic believe there were many more.
Yuri Ivan, music director at St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church in Minneapolis, recently returned to the Twin Cities from a three-week journey to his battle-worn home country of Ukraine. He left March 18 on a flight to Budapest, Hungary, then traveled to the border by car and walked into Ukraine.
No one has a job quite like Janae Bower’s. The 49-year-old mother of three, a member of St. Paul in Ham Lake, is a speaker, a retreat leader and a life coach. She’s launching an online school to help people discover their life purpose — as she guides her teenagers in their decision making. “Every time I learn something, I have this desire to teach it,” she said. “That’s just my natural bent.”
“How wonderful to hear those alleluias and be able to proclaim in a full Basilica that Christ is truly risen,” said Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis as he greeted the faithful April 17 at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. Given he was addressing them at an Easter morning Mass, the archbishop began his homily describing a cartoon of a chocolate Easter bunny on a psychiatrist’s couch.
Regina Hospital in Hastings will merge with United Hospital 25 miles away in St. Paul this August under one hospital license for the two campuses, simplifying patient transfers and billing for the institutions already owned by Allina Health.
Four women from across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis are being honored by the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women for parish-level involvement with their respective councils, parishes and communities. Recipients of the 2022 Laywoman Volunteer Award will be formally recognized April 29 at the ACCW’s 89th annual convention at St. Albert in Albertville. The following information was provided by the ACCW.
Prayer, presentations and discussion. Catholics who have participated in any part of the three-year 2022 Archdiocesan Synod process are unlikely to be surprised by the core elements of the Synod Assembly, scheduled for Pentecost weekend, June 3-5, at Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul.