2012 – Page 43 – Madison Catholic Herald Archive (2001-2025)

Como muchos de ustedes deben saber, en las semanas pasadas tuve mi retiro anual. No doy por descontada la bendición que fue haber tenido ese tiempo de oración, silencio y escucha del Señor.

Sé bien que las exigencias cotidianas de la vida hacen casi imposible para la mayoría de nosotros, especialmente en estos días y en esta época, tomarse un tiempo para un retiro espiritual. Sin embargo los aliento a tratar de encontrar el tiempo necesario para esta experiencia. (Aquí en nuestro centro diocesano acabamos de ofrecer un retiro de fin de semana y hay muchas oportunidades en diversos lugares y en distintos momentos del año).

Fr. J. Daryl Furlong dies

MADISON — Fr. J. Daryl Furlong, pastor emeritus of the Diocese of Madison, died on Saturday, March 17, at the age of 73 while residing during the winter months in Florida.

Letters to the editor

On March 15, 2012

Greg Wagner

Mandate should be seen as attack on religious liberty

To the editor:

At a recent gathering at our parish, I overheard a group of people discussing the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate. The consensus of their conversation could be summed up as follows: “The bishops are getting way too riled up over this issue. It is an election year after all and the president will back down on this.”

As Archbishop Chaput stated, “The current administration prides itself on being measured and deliberate. The current HHS mandate needs to be understood as exactly that.”

Around the Diocese

On March 15, 2012

Jane Lepeska Grinde, For the Catholic Herald

Mass and hospitality celebrate new Good Shepherd Parish

MADISON — More than 400 people filled St. Joseph Church, 1905 W. Beltline Hwy., Madison, for the March 3 Mass celebrating the merger of St. Joseph and St. James Parishes into Good Shepherd Parish.

Around the Diocese

On March 15, 2012

Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

Grouts honored as longest married couple in Wisconsin

MADISON — Their children say that Rosemary and Joseph Grout are a wonderful role model for their family and everyone they meet.

“Their faith is incredibly strong. They’re full of love and life,” said their daughter, Donna Hildebrand of Verona.

The Catholic Difference

On March 15, 2012

George Weigel

Converts and the symphony of truth

Why do adults become Catholics? There are as many reasons for “converting” as there are converts.

Evelyn Waugh became a Catholic with, by his own admission, “little emotion but clear conviction”: this was the truth; one ought to adhere to it.

Cardinal Avery Dulles wrote that his journey into the Catholic Church began when, as an unbelieving Harvard undergraduate detached from his family’s staunch Presbyterianism, he noticed a leaf shimmering with raindrops while taking a walk along the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass.; such beauty could not be accidental, he thought — there must be a Creator.

Guest column

On March 15, 2012

Fr. John Nellissery

Observing Lent with Mary

Lent invites us to seek and find God. In this regard, our earthly pilgrimage continues, fixing our eyes on God.

It is our delight to take short-cuts, especially when our way is long and hard. Indeed, our way to God looks enormously long and tedious. God knew our problem and came to our rescue.

Seeking and finding

God in his infinite love created in his children a heart that longs for him. God, from his part, loved to be with us. Salvation history illustrates beautifully this mutual seeking and finding of God and his children. God was the first one to seek.