Perhaps you’ve seen the movie Unplanned and want to know what to do next.
One suggestion is to join pro-lifers from coast to coast in a solemn prayer vigil at Planned Parenthood facilities to pray for an end to abortion.
Month: April 2019
Making St. Peter’s more accessible goal of parish/school Benefit Dinner
ASHTON — Fun and fellowship with a goal. St. Peter Parish and School will hold its second annual “Planting Seeds for Our Future Benefit Dinner” in order to raise $30,000 to make the church building accessible for members of the parish and school communities that have disabilities.
Pastor Fr. Chris Gernetzke elaborated, “We have many parishioners that struggle to come to the parish for Mass and other events because of how difficult it is to access our church — some even attend other parishes. This year’s goal will allow all our family, friends, and neighbors easy and safe access to St. Peter’s Church.”
Sr. Elaine Robbins, OP, dies
Sr. Elaine Robbins, OP, died April 5, 2019, at St. Dominic Villa, Hazel Green, Wis. Her religious name was Sister Genevieve.
Appointment (4-6/7-2019)
Very Rev. Fr. Paul Arinze, VF, to parochial administrator, St. Mary Parish, Milton, and St. Joseph Parish, Edgerton, per canon 539, due to the short-term ill health of …
Christian artisans in Holy Land sell religious items through Beloit company
In the lands where Jesus walked, for centuries the Christians in and around Bethlehem have earned a living by carving unique religious statues and images from olive wood and selling it to visiting pilgrims.
Running to stand still: the futility of sin
Following is a homily given by Msgr. James Bartylla, diocesan administrator, for the third Sunday of Lent.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus moves us from the “news of the Jerusalem Gazette” to the “Jerusalem Farmers’ Almanac” in the short span of one Gospel passage.
Still time to get out of our ruts this Lent
Every day as a means of spurring family discussion around the supper table, my husband and I ask each of our children to talk about his or her “rose” and “thorn” of the day.
Recently this was a conversation I had with my six-year-old son:
“What was your thorn of the day?”
“My bottom got wet when I went down the slide at recess.”
Sex education led to sex trafficking
In response to the article on “Sex trafficking in Madison is a sobering reality” by Vicky Franchino, sex trafficking was a predictable outcome of sex education in our grade schools, high schools, and colleges for the last 60 years.
Programs to help disabled children should not be cut
If we’re concerned about respecting the lives of children both before and after birth, we should oppose proposed cuts to federal programs helping disabled children.
The Trump administration’s budget proposal is seeking to cut $7 billion in the 2020 education budget.
The high-priced spread (university style), revisited
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Readers of a certain vintage (say, over 60) will remember the Imperial Margarine TV ad that dismissed butter as “the high-priced spread.”
That image came to mind rather unexpectedly when I was addressing the parents’ associations of two prestigious Catholic prep schools several years ago.
Parents favor ‘elite’ secular universities
No, no one threw a margarine-smeared dinner roll at me during my talk. The Q&A, however, was full of contention when I said that a first-class liberal arts education at a college or university with a strong Catholic identity would prepare their sons and daughters for anything.