Diocese of St. Paul to celebrate its 75th anniversary
The anniversary is an opportunity to give thanks for the blessings of the Lord, said Bishop Gary Franken.
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The anniversary is an opportunity to give thanks for the blessings of the Lord, said Bishop Gary Franken.
The results from a search of unmarked graves at a former residential school northeast of Edmonton show signs consistent with burials.
A First Nation in Alberta says new archival work has helped explain numerous discoveries of human remains that it now believes are the unmarked graves of residential school students.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has a collection of documents from the school, but they are not digitized and the West Central Tribune has not been allowed to view them. The Archdiocese did not respond to a request for comment about student deaths or the church running of the school. Clontarf city officials also declined to comment. The Rev. Gary Mills, director of the Swift County Historical Society and Museum, said he would guess the town erected the memorial in 1978 to document history but he isn't completely sure of the reason and historical records are unclear. Mills, who gre...