Jeanie Hannaman

By Luke Larson, National Catholic Register - Among all 175 dioceses in the United States, Bismarck has seen the highest rates of ordination in the country. The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate — a Georgetown University research center that provides data on the Church in America — uses the official numbers from each diocese to provide a concrete statistic for measuring this: Catholics per recent diocesan ordination... It shows which dioceses — relative to their Catholic populations — have produced the most priests from 2019 to 2023, the five most recent years in the data. The lower the number, the higher the rate of ordinations.

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - “Lord, teach us to pray.” This appeal by the disciples arises from their immediate circumstances. They had just seen Christ Himself praying. And they knew that John the Baptist had taught his disciples to pray. It’s reasonable now that they should ask the same of our Lord... Lord, teach us to pray. This appeal arises, more importantly, from the depth of the human heart. It’s an appeal that every disciple should make to our Lord. We are created for prayer, for that intimate conversation with God, to walk with Him in the cool of the day.  But we don’t know how to pray as we ought. We need to be instructed.