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Guided by human dignity: Voting with a Catholic conscience

The Catholic bishops of Minnesota are encouraging prayer and reflection as the faithful prepare to vote in the 2024 elections, including in this video prepared by the Minnesota Catholic Conference.
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Bishop-elect Kenney hails from strong Irish-Catholic family

Maureen Kenney, the youngest of six living siblings of Bishop-elect Kevin Kenney, remembers that while growing up there “was always a crowd, and I was the youngest” and the family station wagon was always full.
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Pregnancy resource centers struggle with funding cut

Two souls, not one. That’s the motto of Options for Women East, a pregnancy resource center in St. Paul. For Jennifer Meyer, executive director, it means caring for the mother as much as the unborn child.
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Cold Spring stylist embraced by salon community after pregnancy loss

At 19 weeks into her pregnancy, Maria Heinen's water broke. At the hospital, doctors advised no intervention could be done to save the baby's life until 23 weeks. Looking for answers and for hope, a visit to another hospital advised they could provide support to the baby at 22 weeks.
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Little Sisters of the Poor plan to leave St. Paul home for elderly poor, ending 140 years of ministry in archdiocese

With sadness at what she called a “family separation,” Little Sisters of the Poor’s Mother Julie Marie Horseman announced her congregation’s decision to seek a buyer for their St. Paul Holy Family Residence, ending more than 140 years of caring for the elderly poor in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
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Archbishop Hebda is a nominee for USCCB treasurer and chairman of budget committee

Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is a nominee for treasurer-elect of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and for chairman-elect of the budget and finance committee.
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Bishop-elect Kevin Kenney ordination

Bishop-elect Kevin Kenney will be ordained and installed as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Pau and Minneapolis at a 1 p.m. Oct. 28 Mass at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul. All the faithful are invited.
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Why I am Catholic — Aviv Stella

Sharing why I am Catholic is always exciting but daunting — there are so many things I could talk about. If I were to summarize my experience in one sentence, I would say that I am Catholic because I’ve fallen in love with God as a person, and I couldn’t imagine being separated from him.
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Digging graves, praying for souls, comforting the mourning

Rich Zasada had a glamorous life as a drummer, performing rock music for huge crowds. Now the cradle Catholic is a 47-year-old father of three, and he’s going about quieter work: studying Scripture and faithfully maintaining Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota Heights, part of The Catholic Cemeteries, as a field worker.
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Viaticum Mass can bring peace to the dying, their loved ones

On Sept. 11, Kim Williams and her family gathered in her dying mother’s home for a Viaticum Mass with Father Joseph Bambenek presiding.
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Archbishop Hebda recognizes past fruits, future opportunities at Mass honoring the dedication of the Cathedral of St. Paul

On Oct. 14, the Cathedral of St. Paul held a Mass honoring the dedication of the Cathedral with Archbishop Bernard Hebda presiding.
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Photo gallery: University of Minnesota students, others join in Eucharistic procession in Minneapolis

About 135 students and others from St. Lawrence Catholic Church and Newman Center processed with the Eucharist Oct. 8 through the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota and nearby Dinkytown.
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