It was 50 years ago this week, in August 1976, that a global gathering of the Catholic Church took place in Philadelphia just ...

Living our lives in alignment with the Lord’s will is one of the most difficult things we must learn to do as human beings.

Jena Kolles, the Vacation Bible School (VBS) coordinator and director of family catechesis at St. Paul in Ham Lake, is a ...

Before there was a story, there was a map. The map contained the story. Robert Louis Stevenson just had to stare at it long enough.

Amid a recent online discussion about efforts to correct our country’s cratering birth rates, one commentator expressed her lack of interest in having children with a rhetorical question.

Ordinarily in this column, this reviewer opines on works of contemporary Catholic fiction — the ways in which a current novel ...

I just returned from a weeklong summer vacation at a cabin. It seems I’m not too unique when it comes to this. Many Minnesotans find the month of July to be a good time to get away for a little while, ...

"Nobody was killed. In all that destruction, that's an absolute miracle -- that no one died." These are words Father Matt Settle keeps repeating. The pastor of the linked parishes of St. John and St.

"He didn't go back to Guatemala to die. He went back to Guatemala to live." Msgr. Don Wolf, rector of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine and a cousin of Blessed Rother, shared these words in a ...

Parish-based small groups are about building community and strengthening the faith to share the love of Christ with the broader world, leaders of the effort in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and ...

A federal judge July 30 temporarily shielded four orders of women religious and Catholic healthcare ministries from enforcement of a New York state law allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults ...

Archbishop Bernard Hebda, center, holds Clare Miller after Mass June 13 at Holy Family in St. Louis Park. At left is Miller’s mother, Grace Miller, along with her uncle, Father Joe Fink, a retired ...