The Criterion 

Each year, The Criterion produces a special Marriage and Family Life Supplement announcing recent engagements and weddings submitted to the newspaper, accompanied by marriage-related articles. For...

If there is ever a doubt that children pay more attention to their parents’ actions than their words, listen to a few of the 10 children of Patricia Etling talk about their mother.

Sometimes life comes down to a friend who notices, who cares and who acts. During his time in high school, 18-year-old Luke Hopkins saw that one of his friends was struggling with life in a way...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Indeed, the words we choose and the visuals we use shape how people experience our archdiocese—and ultimately, our Church.

The scene will always be my favorite Olympic moment, a moment that wasn’t captured by a television camera or a sports reporter. The moment happened during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris...

The Catholic Church teaches that any act of violence against another person denies their God‑given dignity. Violence treats a person not as someone worthy of love, but as an object to control.

We are again approaching the Lenten season, where as people of faith we observe the penitential practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Lent begins on Wednesday, Feb. 18, this year and...

What if we focused on the smallest of details? The striped shades of pink on the imperfectly beautiful petals The solitary bee deep inside the rose quietly collecting pollen The colorless water...

Zach Zarembinski was 18 when he suffered a massive brain bleed during a high school football game, was rushed to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., and placed in a coma. Nine days later...

Para conmemorar el aniversario número 1,700 del Concilio Ecuménico de Nicea, en el que se formuló el credo que lleva el nombre de esa ciudad y que recitamos los domingos durante la misa, el papa León...