Press Releases & Statements

Minnesota, Our Common Home: A Resource for Evangelization
Minnesota, Our Common Home: A Resource for Evangelization

Statement from Minnesota Catholic Conference (MCC) Executive Director Jason Adkins in Response to Misleading Article Appearing at ChurchM...

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Federal tax bill must include key moral considerations

Congress should pass a final tax bill only if it assists the poor and vulnerable, as well as working families. The Minnesota Catholic Con...

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Bishop Sirba: Racism and political violence are “completely incompatible with the Christian faith”

Statement from the Most Reverend Paul Sirba, Bishop of the Diocese of Duluth, August 17, 2017:“I join with Catholic bishops across the co...

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Archbishop Hebda offers opening prayer for 2017-18 legislative session

Delivered to Members of the Minnesota State House of Representatives God of all Creation,The majestic beauty of our State reminds us that...

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2017 Session Recap

Session is over and a budget has been created for the next biennium. Here’s how key MCC legislation fared: Opportunity Scholarships left...

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Election 2016: Prayer, hope in Christ can be our guide at the polls

One evening a couple of weeks ago, I was filling up my car at a gas station and a man whom I did not know came up to me and said, “Father...

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Casting a Principled, Informed Vote this November

Faithful Citizenship means prayerful, active, and responsible participation in the political process. That includes knowledgeably exerci...

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Minnesota Catholic Conference statement concerning today’s “Catholics for Choice” national ad campaign

  A recent full-page advertisement in the Star Tribune, paid for by a national group calling themselves “Catholics for Choice,” woefully...

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Minnesotans gather to discuss local, national response to Pope Francis ecology encyclical

Faith leaders, others discuss ways to nurture ‘ecological conversion’ in churches, homes, and the broader Minnesota communitySt. Paul, Mi...

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Pope Leo XIV on Politics
Pope Leo XIV on Politics

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How the Minnesota Catholic Conference prioritizes advocacy resources
How the Minnesota Catholic Conference prioritizes advocacy resources

One of the biggest complaints that Minnesota Catholic Conference (MCC) staff receives, from both the public and legislators, about our pu...

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