Want to help hospital ministry in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis? How about campus ministry or prison ministry? Or meet needs in the Latino and Native American communities while making Catholic education more affordable for needy families, assisting the archdiocese in meeting the costs of forming seminarians and lending a hand to those facing unexpected pregnancies?
Interim President Yen Fasano said she was inspired and deeply grateful whether she was processing a five-figure or a $5 monetary gift for the St. Paul-based Catholic Services Appeal Foundation (CSAF) as it wound down this year to make way for the new Catholic Services Appeal of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Leaving the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul after the Jan. 22 Prayer Service for Life with her 6-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son in a stroller, Kaleisha Adamson said she attended because she wanted others to realize the blessing and privilege of having children.
Three priests of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis who are members of the priestly fraternity Companions of Christ are being assigned for three years to the Diocese of Crookston to meet pastoral needs there, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said in a Jan. 23 letter to priests.
Bruce Richards, 55, is one of two Catholic school principals in the archdiocese who is now a deacon. He directs St. Joseph Catholic School in Waconia, while Deacon Mike McGinty — who was in Deacon Richards’ diaconate class and was also ordained last month — heads up Our Lady of Grace School in Edina.
Winners of this year’s Champions for Life awards demonstrate the full spectrum of protecting the dignity of the human person, from advocating for children in the womb all the way to those taking their final breaths.
A group of private donors in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis signed a $6.25 million purchase agreement Jan. 17 for a resort in northwestern Wisconsin that will be outfitted as a Catholic summer camp for middle schoolers and for conferences, retreats and faith and science camps in fall, winter and spring.
I have always felt a strong desire to be close to God and help others. I landed on teaching; I love working with kids and getting them excited about learning.
During the parish year of the National Eucharistic Revival, one of the oldest adoration chapels in the Diocese of St. Cloud is getting a very special facelift.
Adrienne Hollis, 34, had to leave her son, Vladislav (Vlad) Cook, two days after giving birth to him last March to continue serving a sentence at the women’s prison in Shakopee. She didn’t get to meet the Minneapolis couple who would care for her son while she was away.
1992, Wichita, Kansas: I and eight other youth speakers addressed all area junior high and high school students in one week. This culminated in a Friday night, city-wide stadium event with music by Rich Mullins and a gospel message by Franklin Graham. I was the one youth speaker in the group who happened to be Catholic. The others were evangelical. Mullins asked: Crudele, why are you Catholic?
High school senior Noah Schoenfelder started each morning of last year’s trip from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., with an hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.
