Year: 2013

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Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

BLT still on the menu: Bishop Morlino continues to badger us lovingly with the truth

On August 1, 2003, Bishop Robert C. Morlino was installed as the fourth Bishop of Madison during a Mass at St. Raphael Cathedral.

During his homily at that Mass, Bishop Morlino focused on the image of Jesus the Good Shepherd. He called that image “one of the richest in the Gospel.”

Just as a shepherd feeds his flock, he noted that priests and bishops nourish people with spiritual food, most notably Christ himself in the Eucharist.

“To enter into that full communion, we have to listen to the word of truth and respond with a profession of faith that we are ready to be nourished by his Body and Blood in the Eucharist,” said Bishop Morlino in that 2003 homily.

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Lindsay Becher, For the Catholic Herald

Local youth return from World Youth Day 2013

After a long, 25-hour adventure of traveling that got us to Rio de Janeiro for the beginning of World Youth Day, the Madison pilgrims, having joined with our new friends from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, were finally en route to the church we would be able to call home for the week.

On the bus, we travelled across the entire city all the way to a far west suburb, Recreio dos Bandeirantes. As we passed through famous areas of Rio, Copacabana, and Ipanema, I craned my neck to try to find the statue of Christ the Redeemer towering above the city, welcoming us to town.

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Kevin Wondrash

St. John the Baptist students raise funds for tornado victims

JEFFERSON — First graders at St. John the Baptist School in Jefferson recently helped to raise funds to help the victims of the devastating spring tornadoes in Oklahoma.

The 20 students in Lisa Kotz’s class were very concerned with the people who were injured, lost their homes, or had to deal with the tragic deaths of family and friends.

Adding to their daily prayers, the first graders decided that they had a responsibility to be the “hands and feet of Christ” in reaching out to their brothers and sisters in need.

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Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

EWTN personality concerned about modern education

WAUNAKEE — The air-conditioned parish hall at St. John the Baptist Parish in Waunakee was a welcome break from the heat one recent Sunday afternoon.

A crowd of families and supporters from Madison’s St. Ambrose Academy, as well as varying degrees of literary fans, gathered to hear about Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton.

Chesterton has become one of the most quoted writers in the English language. Scholars and fans of the author say he foresaw and wrote about the issues Catholics struggle with today, such as social injustice, the culture of death, the decline of the arts, assaults on religion, and attacks on the family and on the dignity of the human person.

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Trisha Hebert, For the Catholic Herald

Cottage Grove parish welcomes priest from India

COTTAGE GROVE — St. Patrick Parish in Cottage Grove welcomes a new priest from India to the Diocese of Madison.

Please join the congregation of St. Patrick’s for a “meet and greet” reception with Fr. Michael Tarigopula at St. Patrick Church, 424 N. Main St., on Sunday, Aug. 11, following the 10 a.m. Mass.

Father Michael is from Pannur, a village in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He is the eighth of 10 children born to his father, a farmer, and his mother, a housewife.

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Chris Lee

Federal judge extends preliminary injunction blocking part of new Wisconsin abortion law

MADISON — A federal judge in Madison has extended a preliminary injunction blocking part of a new Wisconsin law, Wisconsin Act 37, that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of an abortion clinic.

The order, issued August 2 by U.S. District Judge William Conley, stems from a lawsuit that Planned Parenthood and Affiliated Medical Services filed last month. The groups claim the law would shut two of the state’s four abortion clinics because providers at those facilities, in Appleton and Milwaukee, lack admitting privileges.

Conley issued a temporary restraining order July 8. This injunction blocks the requirement through a trial about the law’s constitutionality, which is set to begin November 25. Until Conley’s final ruling, the two clinics currently without admitting privileges can remain open.

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Chris Lee

Judge rules in favor of Milwaukee Archdiocese regarding cemetery trust funds

MILWAUKEE — An important decision on the separation of church and state was issued July 30, 2013, by United States District Court Judge Rudolph Randa. Randa ruled that the decades old practice of putting a portion of the money received from cemetery lot and mausoleum sales into trust for the perpetual care of those cemetery sites could not be undone for the benefit of claimants in bankruptcy proceedings.

Because these funds were held in trust as prescribed by Canon Law, they were independent of the general assets and could only be used for their intended and pledged purpose — to care for the resting places of the departed as sacred places under Canon law. As the judge said, “removing some or all of these funds from the trust and placing them in the bankruptcy estate would undoubtedly put “substantial pressure” on Archbishop [Jerome] Listecki to “modify [his] behavior” and “violate [his] beliefs”.

 

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Francisco X. Rocca

El papa dice a obispos latinoamericanos rechazar ideología, empoderar laicos

RÍO DE JANEIRO (CNS) — Reducir la fe a una ideología mundana, valorar la eficiencia administrativa más que el celo misionero y exaltar el rol del clero en detrimento del laicado son algunas de las principales “tentaciones” que socavan la evangelización en América Latina, dijo el papa Francisco a los líderes religiosos de la región.

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Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

El papa discute mujeres en iglesia, divorcio, su propia espiritualidad

A BORDO DEL VUELO PAPAL DESDE BRASIL (CNS) — Desde su vida personal de oración y espiritualidad hasta el rol de la mujer en la iglesia y el cuidado pastoral de los divorciados, el papa Francisco respondió a varias preguntas acerca sobre la enseñanza y el ministerio de la iglesia el 28 de julio, cuando se reunió con periodistas en su vuelo desde Río desde Janeiro hasta Roma.

Sobre la posibilidad de que la Iglesia Católica ordene sacerdotisas, el papa Francisco dijo: “La iglesia ha hablado y dijo ‘no'” y la forma en que el beato Juan Pablo II lo declaró era “una fórmula definitiva”. El beato Juan Pablo dijo que debido a que Jesús escogió solamente hombres como sus discípulos la iglesia no puede ordenar mujeres.

Sin embargo, dijo el papa Francisco, la Iglesia Católica todavía tiene mucho que hacer en el desarrollo de una verdadera teología que explique la importancia de la mujer en la iglesia y cómo sería imposible que la iglesia cumpliera su rol de madre y esposa sin la contribución de las mujeres.

“No basta con tener servidoras del altar, lectoras ni mujeres como presidentas de Caritas”, él dijo. “Las mujeres en la iglesia son más importantes que los obispos y los sacerdotes”, igual que “María es más importante que los apóstoles”.

Al preguntársele sobre la posibilidad de que la Iglesia Católica comenzaría a permitir que reciban los sacramentos los católicos que se han divorciado y recasado solamente civilmente, el papa Francisco dijo que quería dejar claro que los católicos divorciados pueden recibir los sacramentos. Los problemas comienzan cuando se casan por segunda vez sin anular su primera unión.

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