Practicing Catholic

St. Paul Cathedral in St. Paul parishioner Jenny Keller says pottery is part of her vocation. She spends much of her time at her pottery wheel or near the kiln, and her bedside table is adorned with books about how to mix pottery glazes.

On May 13, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, a series of Marian apparitions to three children in the Portuguese countryside between May 13 and Oct. 13, 1917.

The ordination of 13 priests on May 25 is fast approaching. Ahead of their ordination, two men — Deacon Derek Gilde from St. Mary in Stillwater and Deacon Alexander Rasset from St. Francis Xavier in Buffalo — shared their journeys to the priesthood on this week’s episode of “Practicing Catholic” with producer Kayla Mayer.

The ministry involved with implementing Archbishop Bernard Hebda’s 2022 pastoral letter “You Will Be My Witnesses, Gathered and Sent From the Upper Room” does not aspire to be a quick fix for evangelization.

Deacons Francis “Frankie” Floeder and Philip Conklin are counting down the days until their priestly ordination on May 25, when they will receive the sacrament of holy orders with 11 other men at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.

Father Mark Pavlak is about to go fishing — fishing for men, that is, as he takes up the role of vocations director for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis this summer.

Archbishop Bernard Hebda is looking forward to the priestly ordination Mass May 25 at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul. He will ordain 13 men for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis during the 10 a.m. Mass, the largest number since 2005, when 15 men were ordained.

Two Catholic Charities Twin Cities programs that treat people with long-term alcohol use disorder through a harm reduction model of managed alcohol consumption are...