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A handwritten thank-you card was life-changing for Father George Younes more than 20 years ago. It radically altered his plans for a move to Australia and led to his priestly ordination in the Maronite Catholic Church on July 26 at St. Maron in northeast Minneapolis.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
British Catholics welcomed a papal decision to elevate St. John Henry Newman, a former Protestant and Oxford University chaplain, to the historic status of doctor of the universal church.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Reacting to word that Pope Leo XIV would name St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the Church, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said he was thrilled, and the director of the St. Lawrence Newman Center serving the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota said it was great news.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
I learned a little prayer many years ago that has become more important as time goes by. It comes from the night prayer of the Church: “Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit.” These words from Psalm 31 are meant to be a prayer for restful sleep or a prayer during uncertain times of distress. These are also the last words of Jesus as he died on the cross, and they are repeated at Catholic funerals as a prayer commending a loved one into God’s hands.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Along with St. Agatha’s pastor, Father Bryan Lynch, Father Glaser will host a presentation — A Holy and Living Sacrifice: Revitalizing Our Participation in the Eucharist — and a Q&A following the 8:30 a.m. Mass at the nearly 120-year-old church building. The event is part of the Archdiocesan Passport Adventure.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
"He is the one Englishman of that era who upheld the ancient creed with a knowledge that only theologians possess, a Shakespearean force of style, and a fervor worthy of the saints."| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Catholic Charities Twin Cities operates 365 days a year, 24/7, said Mike Rios-Keating, director of culture and belonging for the organization. Last year, it served 33,000 people. During the summer, Rios-Keating said, Catholic Charities Twin Cities has to respond to heat in much the say way it responds to cold, by having safe places for people to be indoors.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
An audience of one means our actions and work, what we say and do, are for the Lord, Bishop Kevin Kenney said. He was brought up and taught to do good deeds without drawing attention to himself. He said we shouldn’t expect to be repaid for anything, and we shouldn’t expect compliments.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Lacy Apfelbeck, founder of Edge of the Red Seas Ministries in St. Francis, believes she’s fortunate to know what it’s like to have Christ as her anchor. She first encountered Christ as her savior when she was 8 years old.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Days after July 4 flash floods ravaged the state of Texas' Hill Country -- killing at least 121, with more than 170 people still missing as of July 10 -- OSV News spoke with Father Joshua Whitfield, pastoral administrator of St. Rita Catholic Community in Dallas.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
The Supreme Court on June 27 ruled in favor of an interfaith group of Maryland parents who sought to opt their children out of classroom instruction pertaining to books containing LGBTQ+ themes to which they object on religious grounds.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles is calling for prayer, while urging "restraint and calm" as clashes have broken out in that city over recent immigration arrests. President Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard amid pushback from California officials and is threatening to mobilize Marines.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Last month, I began to introduce the Catholic Worker’s main critiques of our modern social order. I noted the way that, in agrarian cultures, life tends to form one organic whole of work, tradition, religion, education, morality, care for the land, community and local economy. Under such conditions of holism, it is difficult to develop a “throw away culture,” as Pope Francis has called it, because each person has an interest in maintaining health in the local environment, local people a...| TheCatholicSpirit.com
As Bishop-elect Kevin Kenney prepared for his Oct. 28 ordination and installation as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, he took time Oct. 3 to talk with The Catholic Spirit about his family, ministries, prayers and his love of dancing. The conversation is edited for length and clarity.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Father Jorge Cenala remembers the day he met Father (now Bishop-elect) Kevin Kenney in October 2005. A native of Mexico, Father Cenala was studying at The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul for the Diocese of Grand Island, Nebraska, at the time. He was assigned to Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Paul as his teaching parish. Father Kenney was the pastor.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Maureen Kenney, the youngest of six living siblings of Bishop-elect Kevin Kenney, remembers that while growing up there “was always a crowd, and I was the youngest” and the family station wagon was always full.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
Two souls, not one. That’s the motto of Options for Women East, a pregnancy resource center in St. Paul. For Jennifer Meyer, executive director, it means caring for the mother as much as the unborn child.| TheCatholicSpirit.com
