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by bcadmin | May 19, 2022 | formation, News, ordination, Practicing Catholic, Priest, priest ordination | 0 |
Four transitional deacons will be ordained priests May 28 for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul. Father Joseph Taphorn, rector of The St. Paul Seminary, where the ordinands studied and underwent formation for the priesthood, said the ordination is a celebration “for the whole local Church.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 16, 2021 | Catholic, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, floods, Germany, News, Priest | 0 |
Emergency response and aid efforts were running in high gear after severe flooding in western and southwestern Germany toppled buildings, washed away vehicles and left at least 100 people dead.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 16, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Bishop, Catherine of Siena, charity, Featured, fidelity, Living the Faith, News, obedience, Pope, prayer for the Church, Priest, Schism, sheep, shepherd, St. Catherine of Siena, The Church | 0 |
“Do not let your anger and your wounds become uncharity.” Feeling Shepherd-less A few years ago, probably after something surfaced with the McCarrick scandal, I distinctly remember a moment in prayer when struggling with feelings of being …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2021 | Faith and Culture, Faith and Culture Series, King, Local News, News, Priest, Prophet, Sister Esther Mary Nickel | 0 |
Priest, prophet and king. All the baptized share in these qualities, which Christ fully lived and which some, such as ordained priests, are called to live in particular ways, said Sister Esther Mary Nickel of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2020 | byzantine, Catholic Hotdish, Doctor of the Church, News, Priest, St. John Damascene, St. Thomas Aquinas | 0 |
St. John Damascene is also known as St. John of Damascus and St. John Chrysorrhoas, Greek for the golden speaker. He was a great scholar and theologian of the East whose influence was so great that he had an impact on great minds of the West, particularly St. Thomas Aquinas.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 21, 2020 | Annandale, COVID-19, Local News, News, Priest, st. Ignatius | 0 |
A priest at St. Ignatius in Annandale recently tested positive for COVID-19 and two other priests at the parish are experiencing symptoms that may be related to the virus, said the pastor, Father John Meyer, who is also pastor of St. Timothy in Maple Lake.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 19, 2020 | Catholic Church, courage, essential service, Featured, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, Men of Faith, mission, News, Priest, priesthood | 0 |
In different parts of the United States and other parts of the world, we are reaching what many are calling “Phase 2” in the response to the coronavirus pandemic. Various restrictions are being gradually rescinded, some businesses reopened, supplementa…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Diocese of Brooklyn, News, Priest | 0 |
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn March 28 announced the death of 49-year-old Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay, a 49 year old pastor, who died the evening before from COVID-19.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 26, 2020 | courage, Featured, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, Men of Faith, News, Priest, priesthood, vocation | 0 |
Two weeks ago I had the joy to preach the annual five-day retreat for Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where 25 years ago this year I began my formation for the priesthood. It was an opportunity to express my thanks to the 150 men prepa…
Read MoreA longtime friend of Don Giuseppe Berardelli, who died in northern Italy from the COVID-19 coronavirus earlier this month, has described the priest as a caring and involved pastor, and debunked what he says is a partial “fake news” rumor circulating about the priest’s death.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 20, 2020 | Catholic Church, confession, Faith, Featured, God, joy, Lent, Living the Faith, Love, Mercy, News, parents, Peter Kreeft, Prayer, Priest, Reconciliation, reflection, self-awareness, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
I have been thinking a great deal about my experience at Reconciliation this past Saturday morning. I felt an intense and unexplainable urge to go and confess my sins when I woke up that morning. I try to go every six weeks or so, but this was no rout…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Father Roger Carroll, News, Obituaries, Priest | 0 |
Betty Schneider was hired in 1985 by Father Roger Carroll to work as a bookkeeper and administrator at St. Columba in St. Paul. That was the beginning of a friendship that lasted 35 years, until the priest’s death in Minneapolis Jan. 30 at the age of 92.
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