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Minnesota bishop expresses outrage over desecration at Catholic cemetery

by | Nov 3, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester expressed outrage Nov. 2 over the desecration of several graves and the columbarium at the diocese’s Calvary Cemetery in Rochester “with hateful and obscene graffiti” on Halloween night.

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Cemetery visits prompt prayer, reflections on the past

by | Nov 8, 2021 | , , , , , , | 0 |

When I lived a few blocks from Calvary Cemetery in St. Paul, I liked to go on walks there when the late evening sun and the faded monuments cast long shadows on warm summer evenings. The cemetery never felt like a frightening place to be. Instead, I contemplated the lives of the more than 100,000 people buried there. Calvary Cemetery is palpably filled with the presence of generations of Catholics laid to rest there since its founding in 1856.

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