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“We are a Church that understands the significance of sacrifice, and so I’m asking you to make some additional sacrifices for the good of our communities and our people.”

With the start of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session on Jan. 31, among the top policy priorities for the Minnesota Catholic Conference will be stopping efforts to legalize sports betting in the state, increasing supports for nonpublic school students and ensuring the budget surplus is used to benefit one of the state’s most important resources: families.

“May we all strive to be what Jesus prayed and sacrificed himself for in his final hours: to gather into one the dispersed children of God.”

The civil rights leader “was driven by the biblical vision of righteousness and truth, a vision that he understood to be reflected in our nation’s founding documents,” Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez said in a Jan. 15 statement.

Ann Marschel said the root of the program is building up young people to know that they have value and worth. “I don’t think they’re often told that.”

“This revival is to awaken in people’s hearts Jesus present in the Eucharist,” said Father Derek Wiechmann, pastor of the Four Pillars of Faith Area Catholic Community.

“I look forward to our diocese’s involvement in these initiatives, and I hope you will participate as much as you are able.”

Pope Francis insisted peace is a gift from God that requires human action in his Angelus address, Jan. 1.