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Health Care Reform: A Catholic Ethical Perspective

On October 22nd from 7:00-9:00pm, the Minnesota Catholic Conference, along with the Sisters of St. Joseph, Catholic Health Association Minnesota, and Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, are sponsoring a presentation on Health Care Reform. It will be held at the Carondolet Center in St. Paul and will feature speaker Fr. J. Brian Hehir, a theologian and social ethicist at Harvard University. It is free and open to the public. For more information, read the flyer here.

Pictures taken from Star Tribune. Photographer Renee Jones Schneider.

The Most Reverend Lee Anthony Piche was ordained to the episcopacy as Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis on Monday, June 29th, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul at the Cathedral of St. Paul.  As a Bishop of the Archdiocese, Bishop Piche joins the Minnesota Catholic Conference as a Board Member. We look forward to working with him on issues that concern the common good for all Minnesotans.

Lee Anthony Piché was born in Minneapolis on May 8, 1958. He attended Irondale High School, in New Brighton, Minnesota and the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul and was ordained a priest May 26, 1984.

After ordination, Bishop-elect Piché was an associate pastor in St. Mark Parish in St. Paul, 1984-1987. In 1987, he joined the faculty of the College of St. Thomas. In 1987-88, he was a student at St. Joseph Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. From 1988-1994, he was student at Columbia University, and from 1994-1999 was on the faculty of the College of St. Thomas. From 1999-2005 he was pastor at St. Joseph Parish in West St. Paul, and from 2005-2008, pastor of All Saints Parish in Lakeville, Minnesota. In 2008, he was named pastor, St. Andrew Parish in St. Paul and vicar general/moderator of the curia.