Bishop Hying Column

Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: Lent is a time for self-honesty, prayerful introspection, healing action, renewed hope in Christ
Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: Principles of natural law must guide the political process and the commonweal of our lives together
Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: What begins with the ashes of our sins, ends with the glorious, fiery victory of Christ within us
Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: Challenge of Lent not to be distracted by details, but instead, seek who God truly desires us to be
Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: Church is truly ‘Catholic’ when authentic differences serve to enhance beauty of the Body of Christ
Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: Looking back, 2017 was a year filled with many blessings and moments of grace
Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: In showing our wounds to others, we all find healing in the One who has never abandoned us
Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: Perhaps this season of hope and expectation finds fulfillment when we fall in love with God
Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: In welcoming the immigrant, the Church continues the work of charity and justice
Will Threlkeld, left, and Isaac Eggerth greet passersby with a wave and a smile on a street corner in downtown Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
COLUMN: Relationships forged in Haiti become transformative expressions of universality of the Church