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When Deacon Francis “Frankie” Floeder became Fr. Frankie in May, he followed in the footsteps of his uncle Fr. John, director of human formation and the propaedeutic stage program at The Saint Paul Seminary, and older brother Fr. Louie, a fellow seminary alumnus and pastor of the Church of St. Dominic in Northfield, Minnesota.

There’s an enthusiastic peace about the newest priest for the Diocese of Des Moines. Cabrera says this was always the plan.

The son of a United States Army officer, Fr. Josh Miller always thought he might end up in the military himself someday. Maybe not quite like this, though.

A priest of 44 years brought a trove of experience to his role as the seminary’s director of pastoral formation the past five years. Fr. Michael Skluzáček called it a fitting final stop of his career, though he’s quick to point out he’s “not retiring from being a priest.”

More than 7,000 Catholic laymen and women, bishops, priests, seminarians and religious from the Upper Midwest and beyond joined The Saint Paul Seminary, the National Eucharistic Revival and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for the “Source and Summit” Eucharistic procession down Summit Avenue on Monday, May 27.

Seminarian Deacon Frankie Floeder, his brother Fr. Louie Floeder, and their uncle Fr. John Floeder, sit down to talk family, vocation and food.

Every Catholic priest has a chalice. And every chalice has a story. Seminarians becoming priests in 2024 share theirs.

Saint Paul Seminary Vice Rector Fr. Scott Carl first met Maria Carmen Morra during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Her smile radiates,” Carl recently recalled to the Star Tribune. “The mask could not hide her joy.”