Blessing her forehead and both hands with holy water from Lourdes, France, as she lay unconscious in a hospital bed in Minneapolis, Bishop Michael Izen prayed for 12-year-old Sophia Forchas, left in ...

The funeral for Fletcher Merkel, who died in the shooting Aug. 27 at Annunciation’s church in Minneapolis, is 4 p.m. Sept. 7 at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, per an obituary published by ...

Safety and prayer were top of mind as the school year began in the wake of a shooting that killed two students and wounded more than a dozen others at an Aug. 27 all-school Mass at Annunciation church ...

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, visited at Annunciation church in Minneapolis Sept. 3 and laid flowers at ...

Abortion -- an act performed with the sole or primary intent of ending human life in the womb -- is never medically necessary, according to medical doctors and Catholic experts on the issue.

Father Dennis Zehren, pastor of Annunciation in Minneapolis, and Archbishop Bernard Hebda talk with the media at the parish school Aug. 30, before the first Mass for the parish since the Aug. 27 ...

For the first time since the Aug. 27 attack by a gunman who killed two children and wounded 18 more at an all-school Mass where he was presiding, Father Dennis Zehren publicly described his attempt to ...

Jewish, Muslim, Greek Orthodox and Maronite Catholic faith leaders joined Archbishop Bernard Hebda and Bishops Michael Izen and Kevin Kenney for an interfaith prayer service Aug. 28 at the Basilica of ...

Many rosary devotees may ponder the grace of a happy death — one of my favorite reflections is the fourth glorious mystery — the Assumption of Mary. Just a couple of weeks ago we celebrated that ...

Whenever I take my kids anywhere in public, I get comments. "All boys?! Didn't you ever try for a girl?" "Five?! You must be crazy!" "Are they all yours?" ...

August features some of my favorite saints on the liturgical calendar: St. Bartholomew (Aug. 24); St. Jeanne Jugan (Aug. 30); St. John Vianney (Aug. 4); St. Pius X (Aug. 21); St. John the Baptist (Aug ...

Archbishop Bernard Hebda was driving into work Aug. 27 when he heard a voicemail from Father Dennis Zehren, pastor of Annunciation church and school in Minneapolis, that "something had happened." ...