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Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will print its final edition "no later than Saturday," bosses confirmed June 23, after police froze accounts and arrested staff using a new national security law.

“I love being a priest and I love being a pastor,” said Father Tony O’Neill of his first 10 years as a priest.

Father Mark Underdahl said he believes that his vocation to the priesthood was borne out of his experience at his home parish, St. Gabriel the Archangel in Hopkins, and the example of his pastors as he grew up. “But in many regards, it was through the love and support of our family and friends,” he said. “And that certainly continues today.”

Father Thomas Sieg, 75, grew up in south Minneapolis and was one of seven men ordained in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1971. Yet he and Father Jerry Keiser were the only ones ordained on May 22. That year, he said, the preference was for ordinations to take place in parishes instead of the traditional location, the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.

The Catholic Spirit is honored to celebrate the priests who are marking 10, 25, 50 and 60 years of priestly ministry this year. In addition to the jubilarians featured on page 16, the following men are observing these significant anniversaries of their ordination to the priesthood. Congratulations to all of the archdiocesan priests — including those not listed below — celebrating milestone anniversaries this year.

Gov. Tim Walz ended pandemic-related social distancing restrictions and group size limits at places of worship May 28. But on June 6, Annunciation in Minneapolis began offering one Mass each weekend with COVID-19-related restrictions still in place.

When asked how many surgeries he has had since contracting a deadly bacterial infection more than a decade ago, 21-year-old Franklin Mejias Castellano must pause and think for a moment.

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked the nation's Catholics to pray for him and his brother bishops "as we continue our dialogues and reflections" in the process of drafting a document on the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church."