Year: 2012

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John Huebscher

Will state Supreme Court take Brennan’s advice?

Eye on the Capitol by John Huebscher

For over 30 years, Associate Supreme Court Justice William Brennan was among the most influential members of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, he and Earl Warren led the court’s “liberal wing” through the 1960s. Brennan’s background was somewhat unusual in that his prior judicial experience occurred not in the federal courts, but on the New Jersey Supreme Court.

As the U.S. Supreme Court became more conservative, Brennan began urging lawyers and other advocates of individual liberty to pursue what he called a “new Federalism.”

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Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of the Church

Sisters issue statement on Patient Protection, Affordable Care Act

Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of the Church

Following is a response of the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of the Church to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Sisters minister in the Diocese of Madison at St. Elizabeth Home in Janesville and St. Elizabeth Manor in Footville.

The Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of the Church publicly and without reserve support the Catholic Bishops of the United States in opposing the Health and Human Services mandate requiring that all group health plans and health insurance issuers provide the full range of contraceptive methods and services under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA).

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Mercedes Pozo

Pilgrimage was truly an experience of love and unity

To the editor:

From the first time we went to Rome, we could sense the greatness and beauty of the Catholic Church, the priests and nuns dressed in their habits walking through the streets of Rome as a visible sign of Christ and his Church.

But the recent Diocese of Madison Ad Limina Pilgrimage took me beyond my imagination. To be in the excavations below St. Peter’s Basilica and to visit the place where St. Peter’s bones remain, I felt transported — in those moments neither time nor space existed. I realized the triumphant, suffering, and militant Church is One, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman. I cried like Mary Magdalene because I could not contain my emotions.

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Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

How to combat violence: Holy Father has suggestions for building a better society

Editor's View by Mary C. Uhler

Violence seems to dominate the news recently in our state, nation, and world. A man shoots a young intruder hiding on his porch. A neighborhood watch vigilante kills a young man who is walking down the street. An American soldier kills civilians — including children — in Afghanistan.

What are we to make of this senseless violence? What is the world coming to and what — if anything — can we do about the violence that pervades our society?

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Jean Mueller

Does Medicare cover nursing home care?

Ask Jean by columnist Jean MuellerQ What exactly does Medicare cover? My father is in his late 70’s and in failing health.

He has told me when the time comes he would agree to go to a “home,” (my mother died many years ago).

He seems to think Medicare will cover the cost of a nursing home. I don’t think it does. Who is right? (From a son in Beloit).

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