Around the Diocese

The Visitor’s Youth and Young adult awards will recognize 12 individuals or married couples — one each month starting in September — who are enthusiastic about their Catholic faith and set a good example for their peers.

The St. Cloud Mission Office has experienced difficulty in communicating with our sister Diocese of Maracay, Venezuela, as the country’s political turmoil has worsened.

Catholics across the country are preparing for the V Encuentro (“fifth encounter”), a national process of discerning ways in which the church in the United States can better respond to the growing Hispanic/Latino presence.

Many of the missioners — whether short-term or long-term — are willing and able to continue to minister to, and with, the Hispanic/Latino communities in the St. Cloud Diocese by celebrating Masses, performing the sacraments and providing pastoral ministry.

Amid political turmoil in Venezuela, Father Ben Kociemba, associate director of vocations for the Diocese of St. Cloud, traveled to the country to visit a priest friend he met while studying in seminary.

The Most Reverend Donald J. Kettler, Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, makes the following appointments in the Diocese of Saint Cloud effective July 1, […]

When longtime parishioner Gail Schlicht, a retired nurse, learned that the pews salvaged after the fire that tore through the church March 11, 2016, were not going to be reused in the renovation, she was eager to see if she could get some of the rescued wood on her lathe.

Sister Tamra Thomas and Sister Bridgette Powers professed their final vows at Sacred Heart Chapel of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph July 11.