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August 31, 2023With the arrival of September, we bid farewell to a summer season. I hope and pray that your summertime was refreshing and rejuvenating. Hopefully, you can point to a time or two where you genuinely felt the healing, hope, and joy of Jesus in the event, experience, or people that were brought forth on any given summer day.Read More -
August 31, 2023I have a friend with whom I am trying to share the Gospel. He has great questions, and I like trying to offer intelligent and rational answers, but I’m not sure if he has faith yet. What should I do?Read More -
August 31, 2023On Aug. 10, Bishop Daniel Felton, the diocesan Pastoral Center staff, and representatives from the mission fields serving the diocese came together at the College of St. Scholastica for a day of dialogue and fellowship as the local church continues to implement Bishop Felton’s pastoral letter.Read More -
August 31, 2023Meet our seminarian, Jacob Tschida.Read More -
August 31, 2023Poking around for a TV series I’d never watched that I could stream, I recently found one I liked. A short way in, though, I came across an episode that originally aired in 2005, which was about a disease outbreak, and I was surprised to discover how “triggering” it was for me.Read More -
August 30, 2023“It takes the supernatural to be Catholic in today’s culture” was what my parish priest proclaimed in his homily at a Mass last week.Read More -
August 30, 2023We are nearing the first of two global gatherings for the Synod on Synodality. It will take place in Rome Oct. 4-28. Pope Francis has said, “In the one People of God, therefore, let us journey together, in order to experience a Church that receives and lives this gift of unity, and is open to the voice of the Spirit.”Read More -
August 30, 2023There is a religious word that is often misused in the English language, and that is the word “miracle.” I call it religious because necessarily a miracle is an act of God. It is misused because people claim so many things to be a miracle.Read More -
August 30, 2023One of the contemporary cultural things that’s hard to fathom at times is preventing people from doing truly good works in deference to an ideology.Read More
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August 30, 2023Six Benedictine Sisters celebrate their jubilees.Read More
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August 30, 2023During Mass on the feast day of the Assumption of Mary just a few weeks ago, Father Matt Miller challenged the Stella Maris Academy Summer Program students and parishioners to not be intimidated by the holiness of the saints, especially Mary, that we can often reflect, pray, and seek direction from these holy people, but that discernment can feel unattainable at times.Read More
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August 30, 2023I have recently returned from World Youth Day in Lisbon, where I gave five presentations, each one of which, as I promised, was evangelical in purpose.Read More
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August 30, 2023In political, social, and economic life, there is no “neutral” ground. Good and evil are competing for control of the same institutions (political bodies, corporations, education, the arts, and entertainment) because those institutions matter. We live our lives within them, and they shape the world around us. They can help bring us closer to God or pull us away from him.Read More
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August 30, 2023A law recently went into effect hiding from the public the fate of infants who survive abortion. Under the new version of Minnesota’s abortion reporting law, practitioners of abortion will no longer report when abortions result in live births and what measures are taken to care for such infants, according to officials at Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life.Read More
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