Ireland's most-senior churchman hailed an agreement that sees a Catholic take the top political job in Northern Ireland for the first time in its history as an "opportunity for a fresh start and a new beginning."
In front of a crowd of silent onlookers at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis Dec. 16, Father Jim Radde, a Jesuit priest, walked solemnly and slowly to a monument for those who have served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Father Allen Kuss has been collecting Italian-made Fontanini Nativity scene figurines for the last 44 years. After amassing more than 650 of them, he decided in 2022 that it was time to put them on display.
With a beautiful sunset as a backdrop, a group of more than 50 fathers and sons stood together at St. Patrick in Oak Grove for prayer and flag raising.
A delegation from Kilkenny, Ireland, paid a visit to Calvary Cemetery in St. Paul Sept. 8. They wanted to soak in some history that ties the two cities together.
A 1964 newspaper article illustrates the qualities Father John Siebenaler brought to his priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He died July 9 at the age of 88.
