Do a Google search for Catholic churches in Minneapolis and Spirit Catholic Community shows up on the third swipe at the top of the page, just above the listing for Newman Catholic Ministry. An accompanying map shows it amid a group of red markers denoting mostly conventional Roman Catholic churches.
The Community of St. Peter might reside outside the boundaries of the Roman Catholic Church, but it feels close enough ties that it went through a "synodal" process and addressed a four-page final document to Pope Francis.
If "demography is destiny," then a certain narrative is baked into the data describing the Catholic Church in the United States. Change is the primary theme, the constant reality over decades.
Martha Ligas learned about the Community of St. Peter in Cleveland six months before she ventured into a worship service. She hesitated because she did not want to step over an invisible line that she had straddled for so long, one foot in and one foot out of the Roman Catholic Church.