Joe Ruff

A new Mass setting, “For the Care of Creation,” was accepted by the Vatican Aug. 4, and Archbishop Bernard Hebda will celebrate that liturgy Sept. 6 at St. Francis of Assisi in Lake St. Croix Beach — during the month of the global Season of Creation celebrations.

An Archdiocesan Commission of Black Catholic Ministry has been reestablished in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, with a mission to meet the spiritual, educational and cultural needs of African American and African diaspora communities.

After finding a bishop's golden crosier, or hooked staff, in a scrapyard in St. Paul in March 2025 and giving?it to Archbishop Bernard Hebda that May, Jeff Helgeson felt called to learn more?about the Catholic Church?he had left?40 years?prior.

Honoring a diocesan partnership that spans 21 years, two officials with the Center for Mission within the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis traveled to Kenya in August to attend the episcopal ordination of Bishop John Mbua Mwandi for the Diocese of Kitui.

More than 100 seminarians in three buses from The St. Paul Seminary and 16 seminarians in three minivans from St. John Vianney College Seminary (SJV), both in St. Paul, traveled to St. Louis for the beatification Mass of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

Sue Schema of Risen Savior in Burnsville said she is concerned about environmental degradation and rising global temperatures as she thinks about what kind of world future generations will inherit.

A fallen tree limb damaged the hood, windshield, and side mirror of this Honda CR-V before it was repaired at SQR One Coll1sion in Cabot, Arkansas.

Father Dan Haugan said his drive on the par three, sixth hole at Inver Wood Golf Course in Inver Grove Heights Oct. 12 did not look promising.

Couple to Couple League International (CCL) is honoring María Alejandra Martinez Balderas and Xavier Balderas of Holy Family in St. Louis Park with its inaugural 2026 Guadalupe Award.

With winter snows, Northfield residents will see moving pieces of art — landscapes and silhouettes painted onto snowplow blades — created by students at St. Dominic School.