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Thank you for your loyal readership of the Northern Cross. Since its inception nearly 20 years ago, we have valued the opportunity to come into your homes and share the Good News of Jesus Christ. I pray that what you have read has given you healing, hope and joy in Jesus.

I heard that Jesus said there is a sin that cannot be forgiven. What is this sin? Why can’t God forgive it?

When my young family was received into the Catholic Church in 2004, on weekends we would often be found in the back row at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary wrestling our infant daughter (who is now in grad school). And often sitting in front of us was a wonderful family.

I am not happy with the current direction our state has taken. In the past three years, legislation has passed that flies in direct violation of natural law and, therefore, against what I believe as a Catholic. The evil one has managed to wiggle his influence into nearly every sacred issue of human dignity in our state.

A couple months ago I wrote a column about how when you are in an empty Catholic church by yourself you are not alone, because if God the Son is present in the reserved Blessed Sacrament, then all the saints are present in the church as well, since heaven is being in perfect union with God.

Purgatory is the teaching that there is a further purification following death for those souls that while not fully perfected, were at the time of their death in friendship with God.

On Thursday, Oct. 3, 15 seminarians from the Pontifical North American College were ordained to the transitional diaconate during a celebration of the Holy Mass of Ordination, including the Rev. Mr. Jacob Tschida of the Diocese of Duluth.

When am I supposed to offer my opinion? For example, I have a friend who conceived a child through in vitro fertilization. Am I supposed to tell her that was wrong?

Many people have experienced the pain of having loved ones leaving the faith. Mari Holderness had an idea to help do something about it.

The Iron Range mission field that includes the parishes of St. Joseph in Gilbert, Resurrection in Eveleth, Our Lady of Hope in Aurora, and Holy Spirit in Virginia, has been rapidly moving into a new reality, using a mission field model in light of Bishop Daniel Felton’s pastoral letter.

In a recent issue of the Loaves and Fishes newspaper, put out by the Catholic Worker community in Duluth, I found an essay by a person named Drew Anderson really moving. In the column, Anderson described his internal conflict as he has concluded that he supports Ukraine in its military defense against Russian invasion, even as he lives in a community committed to pacifism.

There are a few things that trigger rage in me. I don’t typically express outward fury, but this feeling makes my blood boil. I am passionately pro-life, and the deception that masks the truth about our human dignity, our obligation to each other, and the intentional twisting of words that attempt to make abortion a comfortable solution in our society is discouraging to me, at the very least. The temperature ramps up on this topic as election time peaks.