In both years that a march for life has returned to Madison, providing a witness to an end to abortion and respect for life at all stages, weather has been part of the story, but certainly not the full story.
Month: January 2019
Birdbox and engaging in spiritual warfare
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Spoiler Alert! This column reveals details of a newly released film.
The film Birdbox, based on a British novel of the same name, started streaming on Netflix around Christmas time. Starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich, it is a taut thriller that manages, perhaps despite itself, to shed considerable light on the parlous spiritual condition of contemporary culture.
Priest changes in the Diocese of Madison
Msgr. James Bartylla, diocesan administrator, recently announced priest appointments in the Diocese of Madison effective January 28.
Msgr. Charles Schluter, former pastor of St. Peter Parish in Madison …
St. Ambrose Academy juniors and seniors attend march in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forty years ago, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., St. John Paul II affirmed the validity of absolute moral norms including prohibitions against sins such as perjury, adultery, and in this case, abortion.
Only six years after the intrinsically unjust Roe v. Wade decision was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, St. John Paul addressed not only the decriminalizing of abortion but implicitly warned against the cascading moral relativism it helps to engender.
He stated: “If a person’s right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother’s womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole of the moral order, which serves to ensure the inviolable goods of man.
Christian Experience Weekends
STOUGHTON/OREGON — St. […]
Work together to keep government open
President Donald Trump announced on Friday, Jan. 25, that he would grant a temporary, three-week reopening of the federal government, even without a deal for border wall funding.
He signed a bill to reopen the government until February 15 and promised that federal employees would receive their backpay “very quickly.”
I was happy to hear that the federal government was reopening, but this doesn’t mean we won’t face a shut-down again in the future. We have to do something to get our government back on track permanently.
Sr. Patricia Henschel, OP, dies
Sr. Patricia Henschel, OP, died January 24, 2019. Her religious name was Sister Jarett.
Sr. Alyce Kelly, OP, dies
Sr. Alyce Kelly, OP, died January 24, 2019, at St. Dominic Villa. Her religious name was Sr. Stellan.
Appointments (1-28-2019)
As the Diocesan Administrator of the Diocese of Madison, I announce the following priest appointments, effective Monday, January 28, 2019 …
Rev. Msgr. Charles Schluter …
Celebrating Catholic Schools Week
Catholic Schools Week is the annual celebration of Catholic education in the United States, including in schools in the Diocese of Madison. It starts the last Sunday in January and runs all week, which in 2019 is January 27 to February 2. The theme for Catholic Schools Week 2019 is “Catholic Schools: Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed.”