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Welcome to the Web site for the Diocese of Fargo, North
Dakota.
We invite you to learn about the Diocese and our
parish families
by looking through
the categories listed on the left.
May God
bless the time you spend here with us. |
Bishop Samuel Aquila asks priests to pray outside
abortion facility during the upcoming
40 Days for Life North Dakota campaign
posted Aug. 30, 2010 |
In an Aug. 27 letter, Bishop Samuel J. Aquila asked the
priests of the Diocese of Fargo to schedule at least one hour of prayer outside
North Dakota’s only abortion facility during the upcoming 40 Days for Life North
Dakota campaign and to encourage parishioners to do the same. The 40-day
campaign of prayer, fasting, community outreach and peaceful vigil on the
sidewalk outside the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo begins Wednesday, Sept.
22.
Bishop Aquila also announced that he will lead the annual Walk with Christ for
Life procession to the abortion facility on Sunday, Sept. 26, and that he has
scheduled an Oct. 28 hour of personal prayer outside the facility.
Read more here.
Read Bishop
Aquila’s letter to priests here.
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Bishop Samuel J. Aquila |
Supporters of Religious Liberty complete first phase of
campaign and will continue push for constitutional amendment
Bismarck, North Dakota (Aug. 4, 2010)
Supporters of a state constitutional amendment to protect
religious liberty have collected over 85% of the required number of signatures
to place the measure on the North Dakota ballot, according to the North Dakota
Catholic Conference, one of the measure’s supporters.
The conference, which represents the Roman Catholic bishops of
the state, released a statement calling the response “tremendous” and thanking
the thousands of supporters “from all walks of life and faith traditions” who
signed the petitions and collected signatures. “We are especially inspired by
the large number of young adults who enthusiastically supported the cause” says
the statement.
Read the full
text of the statement.
Consultant selected to guide facilities and properties
study
June 8, 2010
TeamWorks International
Inc., based in Centerville, Minn., has been selected by the Diocese of Fargo as
the consulting firm to guide the study of Catholic facilities and properties in
the Fargo metro area, including Fargo, West Fargo, Horace and Kindred locations,
and provide data and demographics-based research services to this important
study. Read
full story here.
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Catholic Diocese of Fargo to discontinue seminary
program and to review all Fargo, West Fargo, Horace and Kindred parish and
school properties
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April 8, 2010
After consultation
with the College of Consultors, the Diocesan Finance Council, the Seminary
Finance Council and the Deans of the diocese, Most Rev. Samuel J. Aquila, Bishop
of the Catholic Diocese of Fargo, announced today that the diocese will
discontinue its college seminary program at Cardinal Muench Seminary, Fargo, at
the end of the 2010-2011 academic year (May 2011). In conjunction with this
decision, a review of the seminary properties and all Fargo, West Fargo, Horace
and Kindred parish and Catholic school properties will begin this June. The
goal of the review, to be completed within one year, is to ensure better
stewardship and more effective and efficient use of Catholic facilities in the
growing metro area.
Read the
full press release here. |
Bishop Samuel J. Aquila |
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Read the letter from Bishop Aquila here.
Read Questions/Answers here.
Listen to Bishop Aquila's April 15 radio
interview with Scott Hennen about the
seminary and the review of
Catholic properties
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Diocese to offer Church leadership
workshops this year
posted June 4, 2010
The diocesan Finance Office will offer four
Church Leadership Workshops this year in various locations throughout the
diocese.
The workshops are for anyone in parish
leadership roles, including pastors, parochial vicars, parish lay officers,
Finance Council members, cemetery lay officers, business managers, bookkeepers,
administrators and board members, Foundation Board members, and others involved
in the administration of Church business and property.
Click here for locations and
registration information.
Bishop Aquila addresses
commitment to provide pastoral outreach to victims of abuse
This letter to the editor written by Bishop
Samuel Aquila was printed in the Dec. 22, 2009 issue of The Forum newspaper,
Fargo, N.D. |
From time to time, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
(SNAP) issues a press release that is critical of the manner in which
the Diocese of Fargo has addressed its response to individuals who
allege abuse by clergy decades ago. Because our public statements in
response are sometimes reduced to a one-line quote, I would like to more
fully communicate to readers, hopefully for the last time, where I, as
the current Bishop of Fargo, stand on the subject of the abuse of
children, sexual misconduct of any kind, and the Church’s pastoral
outreach.No form of child abuse or sexual
misconduct of any kind is now nor ever was considered acceptable within
the Church. I and my staff are committed to this truth.
Read full
letter here. |
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