A plan to unify the St. Cloud area Catholic schools has been approved by the Bishop. Several area Catholic schools will soon be operating under the "Catholic Community Schools" board.
It's not exactly a front row seat, but Bishop Donald Kettler of the Catholic Diocese of St. Cloud will have a chance to see Pope Francis on several occassions while he's in the United States this week.
Bishop Donald Kettler of the Diocese of St. Cloud is holding a special Mass For Peace, in response to the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri. The mass will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday at St. Mary's Cathedral in downtown St. Cloud.
A day after a Sartell man filed a lawsuit against the Diocese of St. Cloud, Bishop Donald Kettler has decided to release the names of those accused of sexual abuse of minors.
Here's a look back at our #7 story for 2013. The Catholic Diocese of St. Cloud announced in September that a new Bishop would be replacing that of retiring Bishop John Kinney.
The Mass Of Installation for Bishop Donald Kettler was held this afternoon at the St. Mary's Cathedral in downtown St. Cloud. During today's (Thursday) Mass, Kettler talked about the conversation he had with Pope Benedict two-years-ago about the large number of sexual abuse cases in the Diocese of Fairbanks, mostly carried-out by church clerics and volunteers years earlier.
With a knock at the door Bishop Donald Kettler was welcomed into the Catholic Diocese of St. Cloud Wednesday evening. The service began with Kettler standing outside St. Mary's Cathedral, he knocked to enter the church, then was greeted to a standing room only church of parishioners.
The Catholic Diocese of St. Cloud will be getting a new bishop tomorrow (Wednesday). Bishop Donald Kettler will be installed as the ninth bishop of the diocese.