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July 2023
This Is My Body
Official Newspaper of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester, MN | dowr.org
Diocesan Eucharistic Congress Draws 5,000 to Mankato
MCC Families First Finds Foothold in Legislative Session, Pro-Life Efforts Continue By REBECCA OMASTIAK
This article appeared in The Catholic Spirit on June 1, 2023. It is reprinted here with permission.
� central aspect of the 2023 Minnesota legislative
session was determining the state’s budget for the next two years, including what to do with a large surplus that began emerging in 2020. Now that the session has wrapped, here is a look at some of the key issues tackled, including perspective from staff of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops. Abortion
MANKATO - On Saturday, June 10, the Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center in Mankato was filled to its 5,000-person capacity for the Diocese of WinonaRochester's Eucharistic Congress, entitled "This Is My Body." Participants from around the diocese, state, country, and even the world, gathered to celebrate and contemplate the gift of the Eucharist, with music by
Luke Spehar and presentations by Bishop Barron, Dr. Timothy O'Malley, Barbara Heil, Dr. Hosffman Ospino, Sr. Alicia Torres and Sr. Eileen Leon. The event featured Eucharistic Adoration, confessions, Mass and a food-pack service, and concluded with a Eucharistic Procession out of the event center and into the city of Mankato. Photos on pg. 4
Measures to codify abortion in Minnesota moved quickly as the 2023 legislative session opened. Pro-life and pro-abortion advocates gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul various times throughout the session as debates took place in the Legislature. In January, as bills made their way through House and Senate hearings, Archbishop Bernard Hebda and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Williams of St. Paul and Minneapolis, along with Bishop Chad Zielinski of New Ulm and the
Legislative Session, cont'd on pg. 8
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