Since the appointment of Bishop Hying to the Diocese of Madison in 2019, this year’s event marked the largest number of catechumens and candidates in attendance — 234.
Month: February 2024
Living out God’s law
Whenever I have taught the Ten Commandments to youth, I begin by posing the following scenario: How would you feel if you came home from school today and your parents announced that there are no more rules in the family?
Catholic Herald correspondent celebrates 100th birthday
Bernhardt, who has four children and nine grandchildren, celebrated with friends and family for her tremendous occasion.
Communion bread baking ovens arrive at new monastery site
With the help of technicians who flew in from France, the Sisters’ altar bread baking machines were disassembled at their current monastery near Prairie du Sac, taken to their new and nearly finished monastery near Hollandale, and reassembled.
Madison Diocesan Choir offering youth scholarship
The Madison Diocesan Choir is again offering the Patrick Gorman Youth Pastoral Musician Scholarship.
When I grow up, I want to be . . .
It’s important for us to be educated voters in the April primary and the November general election, but when we go to the polls, let’s remember what Samuel said and always look to our divine “President” to guide us as we make choices in our politics as well as choices in every aspect of our everyday lives.
A family recipe for St. Patrick’s Day
To ensure that you have an authentically Irish American celebration of the day, I’ll walk you through how to prepare corned beef and cabbage, and then how to properly air out your home afterward.
La experiencia fundamentalde la Transfiguración
El Segundo Domingo de Cuaresma presenta la experiencia fundamental de la Transfiguración para nuestra reflexión en la oración.
How we can go forth and evangelize
In the previous article on Pope Francis’s Wednesday audiences on ‘‘The Passion for Evangelization,’’ we saw how the Holy Spirit is the protagonist of proclamation and examined the role of the Holy Spirit at the Council of Jerusalem.
Today, we turn toward the Second Vatican Council’s decree on missionary activity and exploring the concept of the Apostolic Zeal of the Believer.
Leaping back to 1996
We thought it would be “fun” to go back 28 years (wow) and see what the world according to the Catholic Herald was like in late February of 1996.