Faith and Culture

Religious sisters stay in workforce to help fund order’s retirement needs

Retirement Fund for Religious collection in parishes Dec. 10-11

Burnett, Downey take a stab at TV programming with ‘Light TV’

Mark Burnett and Roma Downey may have misfired with their remake of "Ben-Hur" -- due out on video Dec. 13 in what one news release called a "special Christian version" at "select Christian outlets" -- but that's not stopping them from again taking on the world of television, which has long been their bread and butter.

Surrogacy commission asked to consider health implications

While any pregnancy is inherently risky, those risks increase in a surrogacy pregnancy — a fact opponents hoped was underscored in testimony before the Minnesota Legislative Commission on Surrogacy, which is studying the issue and plans to release a report next month. Minnesota does not legally recognize commercial surrogacy arrangements.

Faith takes center stage in Mel Gibson’s new film

A committed Seventh-day Adventist and World War II conscientious objector, Doss was unwilling to take lives but anxious to save them.

Sorrow and joy: Marking the Reformation with honesty about the past

As Catholics and Lutherans prepare to mark the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, Pope Francis said they should feel “pain for the division that still exists among us, but also joy for the brotherhood we have already rediscovered.”

Last Chance Mass drawing max capacity crowd

Every Sunday night during the school year, St. John Vianney College Seminary gets packed to the gills.

‘Today’ show’s Roker credits Catholic schools for success in life, career

Al Roker, weather and feature anchor on NBC's "Today" show, told a Sioux City Catholic audience that he owes his success in life and his career to the Catholic education he received growing up.

Ham Lake parishioner brings divine mercy documentary to Andover theater

Last winter, Donna Zroka and other parishioners at the Church of St. Paul in Ham Lake saw a movie trailer for “The Original Image of Divine Mercy.” The documentary traces the history of the painting that’s based on the description St. Faustina Kowalska recorded in her diary after receiving revelations from Jesus in the 1930s.

See marks 50 years as Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis

Currying favor with the people of Minneapolis — Catholics and non-Catholics alike — was behind the name change, according to documents in the archdiocesan archives, and civic influence and Church finances had as much to do with the modification as did the sense that people in both cities and the suburbs saw the Twin Cities as a metropolitan area.

Adoption vs. surrogacy

As the discussion on surrogacy continues before a Minnesota state legislative commission studying the issue, the divide between the two sides becomes clearer, even as proponents of the practice try to normalize it.

Exploring the final frontier, Star Trek offered peace, paper says

Honoring Star Trek's 50th anniversary, the Vatican newspaper said the overwhelmingly popular series gave the world a model of peace, tolerance and cooperation at a time of global tensions.

Motherhood in the digital age

Amid diapers and dinner, Catholic moms turn to blogging for camaraderie and creative outlet
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