Day: January 14, 2015

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Chris Lee

St. Vincent de Paul will hold grand opening at new Sun Prairie store

SUN PRAIRIE — To celebrate the welcome its new Sun Prairie “St. Vinny’s” location has received from the community since the store opened in November, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has announced it will hold a grand opening event there Friday through Sunday, Jan. 16 to 18. The thrift store is at 1110 W. Main St.

The Sun Prairie St. Vinny’s store is now the society’s largest of seven Dane County locations. It features more than 19,000 square feet of retail space, as well as a drive-through donation center.

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Cathy Lins, Catholic Herald Correspondent

Respect Life Retreat held at Durward’s Glen

The Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Vigil for Life held their seventh annual Respect Life Retreat at Durward’s Glen Retreat and Conference Center in Baraboo on December 19 to 20.

The weekend provided an opportunity for participants to encounter Christ in the silence of their heart through prayer, the sacraments, Adoration, and Catholic Advent mediations.

“I was just excited to be at Durward’s Glen again for another Advent retreat,” Will Goodman, director for the Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe, said as he shared some of his observations from the weekend.

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Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

What about mourning lives lost by abortion?

News media reported that world leaders — including Muslim and Jewish statesmen — linked arms on January 11 to lead more than a million French citizens through Paris in an unprecedented march to pay tribute to victims of Islamist militant attacks.

Commentators said the last time crowds of this size filled the streets of the capital was at the liberation of Paris from Nazi Germany in 1944.

While we mourn the tragic deaths  in Paris — including the journalists and police who were killed there — I also find it ironic that over one billion unborn children have been killed in the world since 1980 and over 57 million unborn children have died in the United States by abortion since 1973.

Do we have a tremendous outcry about these lives lost? Do we mourn the deaths of these unborn babies?

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Vicky Franchino, For the Catholic Herald

Retreats help heal pain of abortion

Jessica* was a sophomore in college. Naïve about sex, she thought she was in love.

But when Jessica became pregnant, her boyfriend coerced her into having an abortion. Jessica went along with a “choice” that seemed largely out of her control.

Shelly’s* pregnancy was unplanned and unwelcome. After her abortion, her immediate reaction was relief — she just wanted to move on.

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