photography

Minnesotan trusts God in uprooting, relocating to California

Following God’s guidance sometimes requires bold, faith-filled action. Rachel Hastreiter, native Minnesotan, took that bold action when she moved to California and dove into a new career as a photographer. 

Priest draws closer to God one camera click at a time

While his vocation to the priesthood was developing at The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul in the early 2000s, another passion was taking root in the mind, heart and eyes of Father Paul Kammen: photography.

Red Wing deacon helps inmates send Christmas greetings

Cody Rieck, a 21-year-old inmate, has participated in the Christmas photo program before and called it “heartwarming.” He said it makes him happy to be able to do something nice for his friends and family.

In Pictures – December 4, 2014

CLIMATE CHANGE SIX NEW SAINTS

Sayonara, summer

As summer will soon come to an end, The Catholic Spirit wanted to highlight just a few of the ways priests in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis celebrated the season with the local faithful.

Snapshots of grace: Capturing the sacred in daily life

Funny how a single picture can change everything. In the tiny town of Bovey, Minn., four years into World War I, an old man peddling foot scrapers knocked on Eric Enstrom’s door. Eric was 43, a Swedish immigrant who had bought land, opened a photography studio and raised his kids to speak perfect English. He fed the peddler and studied him. There was something striking about the man, a gentle strength in his deep wrinkles and straggly beard.
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