Q: My father is an alcoholic and was never “involved’ in my life as I grew up.
My mother passed away five years ago after a lifetime of enabling him.
Now he is ill and wants help from me, but I don’t feel much like helping since he was never there for me. I feel bad that I have these feelings, it is not very Christian, is it? (From Beloit)
“Don’t you want to be a teacher?” asked my friend Joan just weeks before we were to graduate from Madonna High School in Aurora, Ill.
This was the all-girls’ class of 1945, where we were taught by Franciscans Sisters. We had both been accepted by St. Ben’s in Minnesota, where we would be taught by Benedictines.
I was confused. “What do you mean, a teacher? I don’t want to be a nun, you know.”
St. Luke and St. John the Evangelist Parishes of Plain and Spring Green helped to send 11 students and three chaperones on their first mission trip in June of this year.
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Queridos amigos:
La próxima semana, el 11 de octubre, comenzamos el Año de la Fe que ha sido declarado por nuestro Santo Padre, el Papa Benedicto XVI, para invitar a la Iglesia, nuevamente, a través de la puerta de la fe que Dios ha abierto para nosotros. Es una excelente oportunidad para renovar nuestra fe y llegar a aquellos a nuestro alrededor, a invitarlos nuevamente a la vida de fe en la Iglesia. Cada una de vuestras parroquias, así como las oficinas diocesanas, ofrecerán muchas y variadas actividades por el Año de la Fe, y los aliento a tomar parte de ellas, de manera plena y activa, en este año celebra de manera particular el 50 aniversario del inicio del Concilio Vaticano II y el 20 aniversario de la promulgación del Catecismo.
Por mi parte, he estado alentando a los líderes parroquiales de nuestra diócesis a aproximarse a este Año de la Fe con un énfasis extra al impulsar la evangelización a través de la belleza. Permítanme explicar por qué.
This year’s Rural Life Day on September 18 was, unlike much of the harvest season that has preceded it, a day of perfect weather: pleasant temperatures, just a touch of rain that passed over the area, and otherwise blue skies.
A reverent silence is difficult for anyone to achieve, but with more than 3,000 students from middle school and high school filling the seats and stands in the vast Alliant Energy Center’s Exhibition Hall in Madison, it was something extraordinary.
MADISON — Anne was a sophomore in college. Naïve about sex, she thought she was in love. But when she learned she was pregnant, there was no talk of a future together. Instead, her boyfriend coerced her into having an abortion and Anne went along with a “choice” that seemed largely out of her control.
This is the time of year when we usually see farmers out in the fields harvesting their crops. It’s usually a time of plenty, with pumpkins, squash, and other produce filling the roadside markets.
However, this year many farmers in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the Midwest are facing tough times due to the effects of the drought. University of Wisconsin Extension officials reported that the corn crop was hit the hardest, while alfalfa is down from an average of five tons a year to just one to two tons an acre. Soybeans seem to have survived better, thanks to August rains.
As the 2012 school year begins anew, the Diocese of Madison recognizes its seminarians and transitional deacons in preparation for ordination to the priesthood.
On the Feast of the Exaltation (Triumph) of the Cross, September 14, Bishop Robert C. Morlino prayed and blessed the new Way of the Cross at the site of St. Raphael Cathedral, which was destroyed by arson seven years ago.
