Hockey families across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis were abuzz last month with the news that Hill-Murray School in Maplewood hired Natalie Darwitz to coach its girls hockey team.
The Vatican will establish a new commission to identify and catalogue Christians who have died for their faith in the last 25 years, Pope Francis said.
The U.S. Supreme Court June 30 rejected President Joe Biden's $400 billion plan to cancel or significantly reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 30 in favor of a Christian web designer who argued she had a First Amendment right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages despite a Colorado law prohibiting discrimination against people who identify as LGBTQ+.
It's easy for Catholics to take the rosary for granted. We tend to purchase them as souvenirs, or carry them around with us, or even wear them -- but we forget the immense power that they have when we actually pray them. And that's really too bad, because a devotion to the rosary can be the answer to so many struggles in our 21st-century world.
While police continue to search for a man who assaulted two pro-life activists, the victims are back in front of Planned Parenthood in downtown Baltimore almost daily carrying out their mission of praying for the unborn and handing out literature.
The Catholic Spirit is honored to celebrate the priests who are marking significant anniversaries of their ordination to the priesthood this year. In addition to jubilarians celebrating 10, 25 and 50 years of ministry who spoke with reporter Susan Klemond and are featured on these two pages, the men listed on pages 16 and 17 are celebrating 10, 25, 50 and 60 years of priestly ministry this year.
As the youngest of 14 children, what Father Peter Richards learned growing up on the Iron Range in Biwabik in northeast Minnesota has helped him minister to Catholics as a priest in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for the past 25 years.
As he celebrates 10 years as a priest in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Father Luke Marquard described an earlier decade of his life during which he ran away from a priestly vocation — but God proved that time fruitful for Marquard’s ministry today.
From being a founding class member of a new seminary program in the late 1960s to pausing his retirement this year to help a parish transition between pastors, Father Robert Fitzpatrick has seen himself as a bridge during his 50 years as an archdiocesan priest.
Beekeeper Kyle Hagberg spent time on a hot afternoon June 21 checking on hives in a section of Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota Heights, part of an initiative by The Catholic Cemeteries to implement principles found in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home.”
