Roots & Traditions, Cultures & Customs of Catholic Minnesota

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The Catholic Spirit has a nice little feature extolling Catholicism in Minnesota. Check out some of these nice articles. Your parish, school, organization or culture wasn't featured? Write an article and submit it to them. I'd bet they'd print it. Catholic Spirit

• Our Lady of Lourdes steeps French-Canadian tradition in the kitchen
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• Stained glass depicts French heritage at St. John in Hugo
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• Ojibway Catholic finds traditional spirituality woven into faith
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• Heritage, church intertwined for Polish-Americans
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• New Prague felt like home to St. Wenceslaus parishioners
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• Polka Mass roars with German, Czech, Polish tradition
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• Hungarian immigrant valued St. Andrew parish name and education
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• Germans flooded the upper Midwest during the 1800s
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• Germans find a home at mother church: Assumption
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• Eastern-rite Catholics bring spirituality, traditions to Minnesota
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• Non-Latin rites add to Catholic Church’s diversity
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• Diversity invigorates diocese, resettlement coordinators say
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• Irish immigrants faced challenges of frontier life with faith
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• Some immigrants came from Canada
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• Community is essential to Africans living in the Twin Cities
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• St. Peter Claver member recounts struggles with racism
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• Church kept people connected in St. Paul’s ‘little Italy’
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• Latinos bring gifts of spirituality, traditions, focus on family
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• Mexican Catholics have had long presence in Twin Cities
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• St. Thomas in St. Paul: Where India and Cambodia meet
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• Ethnic music enhances connection to universal church
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• Hmong combine old heritage with new faith as numbers grow
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• ‘Boat people’ brought Mary icons and deep faith
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• Scandinavian settlers have enriched the archdiocese
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• St. Joseph sisters committed to helping ‘our dear neighbors’