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‘Alive’ film captures life-changing graces of the Eucharist

Just in time for the start of a three-year National Eucharistic Revival, a film about four people’s life-changing experiences through adoration of the Eucharist will be in select theaters across the country, including the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
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Vatican releases suggestions for lengthier, revamped marriage preparation

Saying "superficial" marriage preparation programs leave many couples at risk of having invalid marriages or unprepared to cope with the struggles that arise in every marriage, Pope Francis endorsed suggestions for a yearlong "marriage catechumenate" drafted by the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life.
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Pakistani bishop: ‘We don’t have resources’ to deal with inflation

Church leaders in Pakistan are struggling to run parishes and educational institutions as inflation reaches record levels.
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Canadian lawyer sworn in as leader of Knights of Malta

Canadian Fra' John T. Dunlap was sworn in the day after Pope Francis appointed him as the new leader of the Knights of Malta.
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An immigrant’s journey to healing and health

Maria Martinez has served Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Paul for nearly five years, most recently as its director of faith formation.
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Last religious sister at St. Henry bids ‘a double farewell’

Sister Carrie Link was born in 1941, the same year her order, the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, began serving St. Henry parish in Monticello. Her last official day as spiritual director and director of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults was May 31, but she continued to wrap up office work as she prepared to retire after 32 years at the parish and as the last sister to serve there.
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Superpowers at war add to the world’s poor, pope says in message

War produces tremendous poverty, and its violence strikes those who are defenseless and vulnerable, Pope Francis said.
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Panelists: Diverse members bring gifts and experience to parish life

Catholics of various nationalities and ethnicities want to feel they belong in local parishes — and when they are welcomed and accepted, the parish benefits from the gifts they bring, panelists said at a forum last month at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis titled, “Building an Intercultural Church.”
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Holy Spirit at work in Synod discussions, discernment, Archbishop Hebda says

While the Synod Assembly marked the culmination of a three-year process, the work was at the service of the pastoral plan to come, Archbishop Hebda said. That pastoral letter is expected to shape the focus of parish ministry as well as individual Catholics. 
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Bishops lament that Nigerians are not safe anywhere after church attack

Condemning the actions of gunmen who attacked a Catholic Church as parishioners gathered for Mass on the feast of Pentecost, Nigeria's Catholic bishops lamented that nowhere is safe in the country after the incident left dozens of people dead.
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Pentecost vigil Mass celebrates Holy Spirit’s presence in Church, Synod Assembly underway

Archbishop Hebda said the Holy Spirit “has blessed us” with a Church filled with diverse gifts. “It’s only when we engage all of those gifts that we can hope to move forward on all cylinders. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in us the fire of your love.”
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Archdiocesan Synod Assembly opens with buoyed spirits, Mass, procession

Marilynn Neuville, a parishioner of St. Dominic in Northfield, has been saying the Synod prayer since 2019. “It's truly the most beautiful prayer,” she said. “Open our eyes, open our ears, open our minds, open our hearts and open our hands,” she recited from memory.
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