Taken from Archbishop’s blog: “The Gospel in the Digital Age”
Subsidiarity and Solidarity
A couple of months ago, the bishops of the state of New York enjoyed a working luncheon with our new governor. It was a productive and enlightening visit.
At the conclusion, Governor Andrew Cuomo made an observation that has stuck with me. He commented: “Most [...]
The following article is from The Catholic Spirit.
Welcoming Our New MN Catholic Conference Director
I am pleased to announce that the Minnesota Catholic Conference, made up of the bishops from all six dioceses in the state, has hired a new executive director of the office, Jason A. Adkins.
Jason is a native of St. Paul who obtained [...]
REFLECTION, RENEWAL, AND RESOLUTION FOR JUST AND HUMANE IMMIGRATION REFORM You may be feeling discouraged that federal legislation enacting humane immigration reform did not move last year, despite the hard work you and others like you did to engage your community, lobby your members of Congress, and support your immigrant neighbors, and despite the clear [...]
Justice For Immigrants, a campaign sponsored by the USCCB, has released two issue briefs to help people understand some of the difficult issues related to immigration. Read the issue briefs here.
This article by Tom Krattenmaker appeared in the January 2nd edition of USA Today. The original article can be read here. It is also copied below.
The Catholic Church seems to wear a permanent black eye these days. Whether it’s disturbing new revelations about the priest sex-abuse scandal, data showing mass defections from the church, or [...]
“Better pricing for our baskets has helped us send our children to school. Before, we had to weave all night to pay school fees.” These are the words of Teni Ayamga, a basket weaver from Ghana whose children are able to go to school thanks to fair trade.
Teni is the beneficiary of a trade model [...]
The Church Man
by Gail Ivers
As he celebrates 15 years as the leader of a multi-million dollar operation, Bishop John Kinney still thinks of himself as a pastor first.
To read the complete story on Bishop Kinney, click here.
Become more aware of how our Catholic faith leads us to action in the world! These new resources can help you:
1) CST Timeline Educational Activity
This engaging new activity challenges high school, college and adult learners to reflect on the major social teaching documents and their responses to the signs of the times over the last [...]
Minnesota: Poverty up, median income down, racial disparities persist
Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:33 AM PDT
The Census released results from the 2009 American Community Survey on Tuesday morning - and the numbers do not look good for Minnesota (read our press release).
Poverty increased. The overall percentage of Minnesotans living in poverty rose to 11 percent in 2009, [...]
By Peter Feuerherd
A translator is a traitor.
Father Paul Turner, a priest of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, knows the saying as an inside joke among those who move words, phrases and meanings from one language to another. He points out that the joke works better in Italian, where the words for traitor and translator [...]
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