About 120 Catholics gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of St. Paul to pray for survivors of clergy sexual abuse and for a cleansing of the Catholic Church.

Hmong-American Catholics came in large numbers to the Cathedral of St. Paul May 26 dressed in native attire to celebrate the first U.S.-born Hmong-American to be ordained a priest.

Hannah Brandt is a forward for the U.S. Olympic team. Marissa Brandt, who was adopted as a baby from South Korea, used her birth name, Park-Yoon Jung, for the Olympics and plays defense for the combined Koreas.

Philadelphia Eagles punter Donnie Jones, a lifelong Catholic, believes that God has guided him throughout his NFL career and vocation as a husband and father.

Legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian died Aug. 2 at age 94.

Two days after hundreds of people—many of them Catholic—descended on Belle Plaine to protest the installation of a Satanic memorial in the city's veterans park, the City Council voted unanimously to nix all religious symbols there.

"I have no idea about anything that's going on in the world," she said, because she is busy helping her nine children acclimate to life in the U.S.