Day: July 27, 2017

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Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

Hispanics join in national effort

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Carlos Hernandez, Hispanic ministry director for the Diocese of Green Bay, stands with Francisco Sanchez from St. John the Baptist Parish in Waunakee and Juan Estrada from Cathedral Parish in Madison during the recent diocesan training session for “V Encuentro” at Holy Name Heights in Madison. (Catholic Herald photo/Kevin Wondrash)

MADISON — “We are in a very crucial day today,” said Edgar Martinez, positively looking ahead to the start of a training session on July 7 at Holy Name Heights in Madison.

Martinez, member of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Madison, is helping to lead the efforts of the Diocese of Madison’s role in “V Encuentro” — a series of meetings that will take place over the next few years aimed at getting to know Hispanics and producing more involvement in the Catholic Church of its second largest and fastest growing community.

Encuentro is a national effort on behalf of the Catholic Church in the United States to respond to the needs of Hispanic Catholics and to strengthen the ways in which Hispanics respond to the call to the New Evangelization as missionary disciples serving the entire Church.

Spanish translation
A Spanish version of this article can be read here.

Encuentro means “encounter” and this encuentro is the fifth such series of meetings held in the United States since the first in 1972.

According to the V Encuentro website (https://vencuentro.org), there are more than 38,000 Hispanic Catholics in the Diocese of Madison. That is about 15 percent of the total number of Catholics in the diocese.

The training session’s goal was to bring together the Hispanic ministry leaders from the 16 parishes in the Diocese of Madison that have them. The leaders included priests and laity.

Martinez said the first step in the process is “to organize everyone from the base, from the parish to the diocese and so on.”

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Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

God is good . . . all the time . . . at Totus Tuus

JANESVILLE — It’s never a dull moment when Totus Tuus comes to your parish.

For the fourth summer in a row, the Diocese of Madison is presenting the summer Catholic youth program dedicated to sharing the Gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through evangelization, catechesis, Christian witness, and Eucharistic worship.

Two teams of four college-aged leaders each are travelling to a different parish, over a six-week period, to lead programs for grade school-aged and junior high-aged children.

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Chris Lee

Sisters explore healthcare transfer to SSM Health

MADISON — The Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes (CSA) and SSM Health have signed a letter of intent to transfer sponsorship of Agnesian HealthCare based in Fond du Lac and Monroe Clinic based in Monroe.

The parties will begin a due diligence process with the goal of integrating the hospitals and affiliate organizations within the SSM Health system.

As mission-driven organizations, SSM Health and CSA share a commitment to ensuring the long-term sustainability of Catholic healthcare and providing exceptional healthcare services to meet the needs of the patients and communities they serve across Wisconsin.

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Kevin Wondrash, Personal del Catholic Herald

Hispanos se unen en un esfuerzo nacional

MADISON — “Hoy es un día muy crucial,” dijo Edgar Martínez, con una visión positiva al inicio de la sesión de entrenamiento el 7 de julio en Holy Name Heights en Madison.

Martínez, miembro de la Parroquia de Santo Tomás de Aquino en Madison, está ayudando a dirigir los esfuerzos de la Diócesis de Madison en el rol para el “V Encuentro”– una serie de reuniones que se llevará a cabo en los próximos años con el fin de conocer más a los Hispanos y crear más participación de su parte dentro de la Iglesia Católica ya que son la segunda comunidad más grande y la comunidad que más rápido está creciendo en la Iglesia.

El Encuentro es un esfuerzo nacional de parte de la Iglesia Católica en los Estados Unidos, el cual busca responder a las necesidades de los Hispanos Católicos y fortalecer las maneras en las cuales los Hispanos responden al llamado a la Nueva Evangelización como discípulos misioneros sirviendo a la Iglesia entera.

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Kevin Wondrash

Sacred Hearts students participate in Destination ImagiNation Global Finals

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two Destination ImagiNation (DI) teams from Sacred Hearts School in Sun Prairie qualified at the recent state tournament for the Global Finals in Knoxville, Tenn.

The two teams were made up of middle school students, who joined students from 48 states and 30 countries for the Global Finals, which ran May 24 to 27 at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville. In all, over 8,000 students competed in seven different challenge categories.

Program in ninth year

Sacred Hearts School is in its ninth year of providing this after-school co-curricular to fourth through eighth graders.

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Kevin Wondrash

St. Dennis Parish holds festival

MADISON — All are invited to the 61st annual St. Dennis Parish Festival. The festival has fun for all ages and is open to the public. The festival begins at 5 p.m. Friday, July 28, and ends at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 30, at 409 Dempsey Rd.

The festival includes live bands, children’s games, 5K road race, $10,000 grand prize raffle, 1,000 family flea market, book tent, food, soda, beer tent, bingo, all-you-can-eat beef dinner, outdoor Mass at 10 a.m. Sunday, and much more.

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Kevin Wondrash

Free presentations on Gut and Physiology/Psychology Syndrome

REEDSBURG — Does your child display strange behaviors, speech delays, fussy eating habits, tummy aches, and other anomalies? Have you been diagnosed with gut related conditions such as IBS, SIBO, diarrhea, and eating disorders?

Are you concerned that you may have an autoimmune disorder? Suffering from allergies, depression, or obsessive-compulsive disorder? Have you been diagnosed with PMS, PCOS, endometriosis, and other fertility related concerns?

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Jan Mailloux

Bishop Barron’s comments on Luther found ‘confusing, disturbing’

To the editor:

This letter is in response to Bishop Robert Barron’s article, “Looking at Luther with Fresh Eyes,” in your June 29, 2017 issue.

Bishop Barron’s comments, based on a book he had read on Martin Luther, were confusing and disturbing. In the article’s descriptions of Luther’s “experience of grace,” his “love affair,” and his “ecstatic experience,” the seriousness of Luther’s harmful effect on countless souls was minimized. Bishop Barron even seemed to conclude that both the criticism and the celebration of Luther’s solas could simultaneously be appropriate, thus helping to pave the way for ecumenism.

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Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

Support efforts to stop trafficking

At the recent Catholics at the Capitol in Madison, we heard about the dangers of human trafficking in our state and nation.

We need to invest more of our resources to fight against labor and sex trafficking, which sadly targets many young victims.

The U.S. House of Representatives took a step in the right direction on July 12. It passed an anti-trafficking bill which would put more than $500 million over the next four years into efforts to fight labor and sex trafficking both in the U.S. and abroad.

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