Don Shula was an outstanding football coach for the Miami Dolphins when they enjoyed the only undefeated season in NFL history.
Month: July 2022
New chief of staff in diocese
Michael Wick has started in his role as the new chief of staff in the Diocese of Madison.
Always present
The summer months bring opportunities for vacations and trips. Time to get away from the usual day-to-day to focus on family and seek out new adventures.
In-person MDCCW convention returns
Holy water and blessed salt were among the items in the gift bags for the women participating in the 67th gathering of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (MDCCW) held at All Saints Church in Berlin last month.
What is Divine Mercy Academy? Part two
Last year, Divine Mercy Academy, a “Catholic Classical Montessori school” for children ages three to 12 opened on Madison’s west side.
La Necesidad de un Avivamiento Eucarístico
“Cuanto más viva es la fe eucarística del Pueblo de Dios, más profunda es su participación en la vida eclesial en el firme compromiso con la misión confiada por Cristo a sus discípulos,” dijo el Papa Benedicto XVI en su exhortación apostólica postsinodal Sacramentum Cartitatis.
Learning from the media ‘venerables’
I just finished reading two books that I would encourage anyone interested in “modern” evangelization and catechesis to read.
God knows what time will tell
I know you’re all avid cover-to-cover readers of the Catholic Herald, so you know what happened on June 24 — the never-thought-we’d-ever-see-this U.S. Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade and other related cases thus ruling that there is no right to an abortion in the U.S. Constitution.
We can rebuild culture and society
“St. Benedict . . . found the world, physical and social, in ruins, and his mission was to restore it in the way, not of science, but of nature . . . not professing to do it by any set time or by any rare specific or by any series of strokes, but so quietly, patiently, gradually . . . Silent men were observed about the country, or discovered in the forest, digging, clearing, and building; and other silent men, not seen, were sitting in the cold cloister, tiring their eyes, and keeping their attention on the stretch, while they painfully deciphered and copied and re-copied the manuscripts which they had saved. There was no one that “contended, or cried out,” or drew attention to what was going on; but by degrees the woody swamp became a hermitage, a religious house, a farm, an abbey, a village, a seminary, a school of learning, and a city . . .