July 25, 2013 – Madison Catholic Herald Archive (2001-2025)


	Officers of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women include, from left: Carol Rogers, secretary; Rosa Ropers, president-elect; Coreen Marklein, president; Barbara Agasie, treasurer; and Carol Brennan, immediate past president. (Photo by Kathy Loy)

BELMONT — Hosted by the Grant Vicariate, the 59th annual meeting of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (MDCCW) focused on the theme of “Uniting Women of Faith” and brought together women from throughout the 11-county Madison Diocese to the Belmont Convention Center recently.

MDCCW President Coreen Marklein, Baraboo, presided at the convention. Jeffrey Arrowood, Somerset, founder and director of From the Abbey, gave the keynote on “Take Control of Your Life.” He also led a shareshop on evangelization.

Another shareshop was presented on foster care and resulted in more than 100 backpacks and personal items donated by MDCCW to foster children.

Individual membership approved

Women may now join the MDCCW as individual members whether or not their parish is affiliated with MDCCW as a result of action taken at the convention.

Marklein thanked the members for voting unanimously to change the constitution and by-laws to allow individual membership. Because fewer parishes have councils that provide for membership in MDCCW, the change gives all diocesan women “an opportunity to unite and share our spirituality, leadership, and service with other women of the council in the Madison Diocese.”

As a result of the change, the website for the diocesan council, www.mdccw.com, includes a new brochure and membership form.

Around the Diocese

On July 25, 2013

Chris Lee

Hope Haven consolidates programs and services

MADISON — Catholic Charities has announced that Hope Haven, a Catholic Charities company, will be consolidating their programs and services from three facilities to two, effective on July 31 of this year.

The Hope Haven program, located at 425 W. Johnson St. in Madison, will be relocated to 3602 Memorial Dr., the current location of the North Bay Lodge program.

News

On July 25, 2013

Noah teDuits, For the Catholic Herald

Local teens make pilgrimage to Rio

Journey is a poor word to describe our pilgrimage to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for World Youth Day. The better way to describe it would be to call it a quest. A quest in which the forces of light battle the hordes of darkness. However, in this case the darkness is inside of us. This darkness is the thought that we are alone in our fight against evil, that Church is weak, diminishing, powerless against the aggressive advances of the devil in our world.

The Catholic Difference

On July 25, 2013

George Weigel

Continuing to fight for marriage

Responses from right-minded marriage proponents to the Supreme Court’s June 26 decisions in two cases involving the (re)definition of marriage seemed to come in three waves.

The immediate reaction, influenced no doubt by a partisan press, was that the friends of marriage had suffered a severe, and perhaps lethal, blow when the court first struck down the key provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and then denied standing to those challenging the judicial overturn of California’s “Proposition 8,” an initiative that restored the classic meaning of marriage to California law.

Editorial

On July 25, 2013February 15, 2022

Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

Virtual World Youth Day: Join with Pope Francis and young people in prayer

Even though most of us can’t be in Rio De Janeiro this week, we can still join Pope Francis and hundreds of thousands of young people in prayer as they gather for World Youth Day (WYD).

As a “friend” of WYD on Facebook, I’ve been receiving updates and countdowns to the big event for many months. I almost feel like I’m making the trip myself!

I would encourage interested persons to follow WYD on its Facebook Page (World Youth Day Rio 2013). Of course, the Catholic Herald’s own Facebook Page (Madison Catholic Herald) as well as our website (www.madisoncatholicherald.org) and Twitter (@CHMadison) will be carrying coverage of WYD. Our website will include updates from Catholic News Service in English as well as in Spanish.

Sacrament of Penance: examination of conscience

By Abbot Marcel Rooney, OSB

This is the second in a series of articles examining the theology and spirituality of the Sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation.

We have seen, in the first article about this sacrament, that three things are necessary for its valid celebration: contrition for the sins one has committed; confession to a priest of all serious sins; and satisfaction of the penance which is asked of the penitent.