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by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2022 | Bishop Williams, Bishop-elect Joseph Williams, Bishop-elect Williams, Divine Mercy, Faribault, Featured, Freddy Torres, Holy Rosary, Joseph Williams, Latino people, News, Norberta Lopez, priesthood | 0 |
When Bishop-elect Joseph Williams, as a high school sophomore, debated immigration, he and a classmate argued that people crossing the border without papers break the law and should be prosecuted. As a priest in 2012, he wrote a commentary piece in The Catholic Spirit saying it was hard for him to believe he once held that opinion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 21, 2022 | Bishop Williams, Bishop-elect Joseph Williams, Featured, George Floyd, News, Norberta Lopez, Rescue | 0 |
Bishop-elect Joseph Williams brought a different kind of salvation to Norberta Lopez and her family: a physical rescue in the midst of protests and rioting that took place after the May 25, 2020, police-involved killing of George Floyd, an African American.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 19, 2022 | Bishop Williams, Bishop-elect Joseph Williams, Cathedral Young Adults, CYA, Featured, Mary Gibson, News, Sports Night, Theology on Tap, Young adult ministry | 0 |
When Bishop-elect Joseph Williams was ordained a priest in 2002, his first parish assignment was as an associate at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul. Immediately, he poured his energy into young adult ministry. The fruits of that effort continue today, in the form of ministries he worked with such as Cathedral Young Adults.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 23, 2021 | Archbishop Hebda, Bishop-elect Joseph Williams, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
Archbishop Bernard Hebda said that Pope Francis’ naming of Father Joseph Williams as the next auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis gave him one more reason to love our Holy Father. “I’m just over-the-moon thrilled” that he would have chosen somebody so blessed, he said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 18, 2021 | Bishop-elect Joseph Williams, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
Bishop-elect Joseph Williams remembers the day he received the call from the apostolic nuncio to the U.S. about his appointment as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. “He told me he had great news,” he said. “And as we see, even in the Scriptures before great news, there is that temptation to be a little bit afraid. And I had some of that fear come into my heart.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2021 | Bishop Williams, Bishop-elect Joseph Williams, Blessed Virgin Mary, Featured, News, Press conference, School of charity | 0 |
Calling the Blessed Virgin Mary “my great strength, my great love,” Bishop-elect Joseph Williams smiled and said, “and I feel she’s to blame for this.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2021 | archbishop bernard hebda, Archbishop Hebda, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Bishop Williams, Bishop-elect Joseph Williams, Cathedral of St. Paul, News | 0 |
With his parents and other family members in the front pew, Bishop-elect Joseph Williams concelebrated morning Mass Dec. 10 at the Cathedral of St. Paul, just hours after the 5 a.m. announcement of his appointment as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2021 | Auxiliary Bishop, Bishop Williams, Bishop-elect Joseph Williams, Father Joseph Williams, Featured, Joseph Williams, News, Picks | 0 |
Pope Francis has appointed Father Joseph Williams an auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the apostolic nuncio to the United States announced Dec. 10.
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