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Fr. Mike Schmitz, host of the Bible in a Year and Catechism in a Year podcasts and a contributor to Ascension, served as a keynote speaker at the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. Before that, he met with reporters to answer questions ranging from how to minister to youth online to how to celebrate the Catholic liturgy.

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.

Fr. Nick Vance is too young to remember. But like every parent, Deacon Chris Vance and his wife Leila dressed young Nick every day during his first few years of life. It was surreal, then, when Fr. Nick Vance — then Deacon Nick Vance — had the opportunity to vest his father at the Archdiocese […]

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.

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

1959 Saint Paul Seminary alumnus Fr. Martin Siebenaler will receive the seminary’s Distinguished Alumni Award on Sept. 24 — his 92nd birthday.

The Saint Paul Seminary extends a warm welcome to Bishop Scott Bullock. The prelate appointed earlier this year by Pope Francis completed his pre-theology studies here in Minnesota.