In the late hours of March 30, catechumens and candidates across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will enter full communion with the Church at the Easter Vigil.
The Minnesota Catholic Conference (MCC) is urging Catholics to sign a petition encouraging legislators to restore religious exemption protections in the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA).
The Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, marking the beginning of the Paschal Triduum, concludes with a procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the altar of repose.
Thinking back on Evelyn Waugh’s famous Book Three title in “Brideshead Revisited,” I am Catholic because like “a twitch upon the thread,” God gently calls me and protects me when I need it most.
For years, David Fischer dreamt of being a priest, immersing himself in a year of NET Ministries, four years at St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul plus summers with the Companions of Christ, a local group of seminarians and priests. Then, he discerned marriage was his vocation and he carried the fruits of that intense formation into fatherhood, raising nine kids — now ages 2 to 20 — with his wife, Laura, in Woodbury.
Hoping to advance local conversation about racial equity, particularly from a Catholic perspective, the Catholic Racial Justice Coalition (CRJC) is sponsoring an April 13 event at St. Mary’s University in Minneapolis.