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The expansive parking lot just north of Mall of America in Bloomington will soon be transformed into a festive holiday experience highlighting Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration suspending implementation of COVID-19 vaccination requirements in the workplace effective Nov. 17 because of legal challenges, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, its parishes and schools are doing the same.

From Haiti to Afghanistan, Catholic Relief Services has demonstrated how it has worked with other Catholic agencies as "one church" to respond to debilitating humanitarian crises around the world, CRS leaders told U.S. bishops gathered for their fall general assembly.

Nativity of Mary Church in Bloomington is home to a special display of artwork undertaken after the death of George Floyd that emphasizes the diversity of saints and the unity of the faith they shared.

The synodal process the church is entering into is meant to show that "no one is unimportant in this time of listening," Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, told his fellow bishops gathered for their annual fall general assembly.

The U.S. bishops spotlighted two major initiatives focused on the central role of the Eucharist Nov. 17, the second of two days of public sessions of their fall general assembly.

The sun barely had peaked over the horizon, ending the darkness and bringing light into Baltimore's Inner Harbor, where two U.S. cardinals, six bishops and prominent leaders of various faiths clasped hands with a group of about 20 men and women Nov. 18, praying for an end to the "evil" that brought them together.

Reacting to concerns expressed by religious leaders, St. Paul city planners substantially rewrote a proposed ordinance designed to improve the process for land use applications for religious organizations.