In this episode of Voices of Hope, diocesan director of communications, Joe Towalski, talks with astronaut Mark Vande Hei. Vande Hei, a graduate of St. John's University in Collegeville, spent five-and-a-half months on the International Space Station.

In this episode, Laura Kelly Fanucci speaks with Kristi Bivens, the Diocese of St. Cloud's associate director of lay leadership formation, about our baptismal call to ministry, service and leadership in the Church. Fanucci will be the keynote speaker at Diocesan Ministry Day Sept. 30 at St. John's University in Collegeville. She is an author and director of the Communities of Calling Initiative at the Collegeville Institute at St. John's.

Writer Nikki Rajala talks with Franciscan Sister Elise Saggau, author of “A Journey to New Frontiers, 1950-2018,” a new history of the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls.

Father Bill Vos, local director of Catholic Relief Services and former director of the St. Cloud Mission Office, talks with Dr. Donald McCrabb, executive director of the United States Catholic Mission Association.

Molly Powers, a local wife and mom who also has experience in education and campus ministry, talks about her experiences guiding a group of pilgrims to World Youth Day in Panama.

Father Leo Patalinghug, also known as the cooking priest, sat down between presentations for a conversation with Dianne Towalski from The Central Minnesota Catholic. Father Patalinghug was in Sauk Centre for three talks about how to become a saint.

Bishop Donald Kettler talks about ways to deepen the Lenten experience.