The 2025 Rural Life Mass will be held on Sunday, June 29th at 4:30 PM at the Calvin and Linda Leyendecker farm near Marion, ND. All are welcome to attend. A meal will be served after the Mass and you are asked to per-register for the meal by contacting the Basilica of St. James in Jamestown by the close of business on Monday, June 16th. Bring a bag of soil from your farm, ranch or garden to be blessed by Bishop Folda. For more information, go to fargodiocese.org/rural-life.
Come join us for a 4-day walking/hiking pilgrimage along the North Country Trail, beginning on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi (June 22), Dazey, ND, and ending at Maryvale, Valley City, on June 25.
- Matt & Sarah Komprood | Parishioners of St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center, Grand Forks
There have been many books written theorizing what life on earth might look like after a nuclear apocalypse. But none intertwine the fears of a post atomic age America with a Catholic eschatology like A Canticle for Leibowitz, written by Walter M. Miller Jr., originally published in 1959.
In a moment that will be etched in the annals of Church history, students from the University of Mary’s Rome campus stood mere feet from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as white smoke signaled the election of the first American pope, Robert Francis Prevost—now Pope Leo XIV. The students, part of the university’s May-mester program, found themselves at the epicenter of a historic spiritual event, witnessing firsthand the announcement of the new pontiff.
I was conversing with a friend on the sidewalk that spring afternoon when, from the corner of my eye, I noticed a man near a pickup in the parking lot of the Moorhead abortion facility. “Just a sec,” I said, interrupting the discussion.