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Monastic traditions -- including stability, silence, community, hospitality, love of learning and continual growth -- are becoming attractive especially to non-religious Millennials.

When Judith Valente, a Benedictine oblate, leads contemplative retreats both online and in monasteries around the country, she has been noticing that laypeople -- whether Catholic or spiritual-but-not-religious, married or unmarried, male or female -- outnumber the monks and sisters about three to one.

“We invite the community as a whole to share in the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of St. Francis Catholic Church, and together recall the manifold blessings God has bestowed on our community over the years," Father Michael Garry stated.

Ranking is the second time in three years for the school.

University of Mary Nursing Program No. 1 in the Nation for Second Time in Three Years SPECIAL TO DEVILS LAKE  JOURNAL BISMARCK, ND — Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Mary is once again at the very top of all nursing schools across the U.S. Nursing’s national benchmarking service, Mountain Measurements, ranking University of Mary’s program No. 1 in America. The yearly report is based on the April 2020 through March 2021 Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN) graduates w...

University of Mary’s 60th Commencement Ceremonies are April 24 K. William Boyer, Devils Lake Journal © Getty Images/iStockphoto North Dakota State University’s spring commencement ceremonies will be an in-person event on Saturday, May 15, at the Fargodome at 10 a.m. BISMARCK— On Saturday, April 24 the University of Mary will award degrees to 2056 graduates at its 2021 commencement. This year, because the University of Mary is combining the 2020 and 2021 commencements in...