To Mark Pattison:
I am writing in support of your article in the March 31 issue of the Catholic Herald about the defunding of PBS. It was so refreshing to read the article that as soon as I finished it, I clipped it out and shared it with a few friends, proud that you too thought it important enough of an issue to make others aware.
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Nota del editor: La siguiente es una transcripción de la homilía del Obispo Robert C. Morlino en las ordenaciones sacerdotales del viernes 6 de mayo en la Iglesia Santa María Goretti en Madison.
Tim, Jorge, “mis hijos” puedo decirles esta noche. Al llamarlos mis hijos, quiero agradecerles a sus padres, sus abuelos, sus familias, por mostrarles lo que significa ser un buen padre, mucho antes de que yo apareciera en la escena. Y quiero agradecerles por haberles mostrado a ustedes dos lo que es ser un hijo fiel.
Todo eso entrará en juego en los días, meses y años por venir. Estoy casi tan orgulloso de ustedes esta noche como sus queridos padres lo están, pero no tan orgulloso (creo que no podría manejarlo) pero sé lo orgullosos que están ellos y yo, ciertamente, estoy orgulloso. Estoy muy agradecido a sus queridos padres y sus familias, por su generosidad en darle a la Iglesia tan maravilloso y generoso don.
MADISON — At the most recent St. Thérèse of Lisieux Lecture held at the Bishop O’Connor Catholic Pastoral Center April 7, renowned Jewish-American author Rabbi David G. Dalin confronted the myths and legends surrounding the papacy of Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust.
Mother’s Day offers us opportunities to show that we are as proud of our mother as she is of us.
Anna Jarvis, (1864-1948) was so proud of her mother that she worked to establish a day on which she and others could honor their mother and all mothers. She is known as the mother of Mother’s Day.
Our Lady is for us the ultimate example of somebody adhering herself fully to God’s will. She was surely scared and unsure of what might come next, but unknowingly said yes to God’s will, that she would bear His son.
We can use this as a model for our relationship with God, and invoke Mary’s kind whispers in Jesus’ ear to help us through a hard time and grow closer to Jesus.
Obviously, a powerful devotion to Our Lady, the Rosary is a great way to strengthen your relationship with God’s mother. While many people my own age think of the Rosary as a chore to pray with family or a boring task, sometimes its true potential is never quite realized.
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El domingo pasado hubo una celebración maravillosa en muchas formas. Y el Evangelio del domingo –el segundo domingo de Pascua– fue simplemente espectacular.
En Juan 20:19-31 vemos a Jesús aparecer ante los Apóstoles en Su cuerpo resucitado y usando el saludo “La paz sea con vosotros”. La paz a la que Jesús se refiere, por supuesto, es la paz del cielo, ese “Shalom”, ese bienestar total, es parte de la alegría celestial y del descanso en el paraíso. La paz a la que Jesús se refiere es la paz del cielo mismo.
¿Y qué dice Jesús luego de eso? “Reciban el Espíritu Santo. A quienes perdonen sus pecados les sean perdonados, y a quienes se los aten queden atados”. Una parte esencial de la paz celestial y la alegría, y la razón de la muerte de Jesús y su resurrección, ¡es el perdón de los pecados! El cuerpo de Jesús fue quebrado y Su sangre fue derramada para que nuestros pecados sean perdonados, para que así haya misericordia. Esencial para el “Shalom” celestial contenido en el saludo de Jesús, es que Su misericordia es derramada sobre nosotros, que los pecados son perdonados.
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MADISON — On Tuesday of Holy Week, April 19, clergy, religious, and laity from around the diocese came to Madison to participate in the annual Chrism Mass at St. Maria Goretti Church.
The Mass, at which priests renew their vows and the oils for the sacraments are blessed, was an opportunity to celebrate those special gifts to the Church, Bishop Robert C. Morlino said. With an eye to the sleeting weather outside, he joked that we were celebrating Christmas in April.
The weather held back many people, particularly from the farther reaches of the 11 counties that make up the Diocese of Madison. Parishes which were not able to attend or send representatives were still able to receive the oils that will be used throughout the coming year in sacraments and several other Church rites.
PLAIN — Five years ago, St. Luke Parish catechists Vicki and Chuck Fenske challenged their freshmen students to watch the movie, The Passion of The Christ.
BELOIT — In 1911, when St. Jude Parish was only three years old, the well-respected founding pastor, Fr. Joseph Hanz, organized the Senior Ladies Guild, one of three such organizations he formed within the parish.
One hundred years later, its name now changed to the Marian Guild Council of Catholic Women, the group continues to be a constant force offering dedicated service to the parish. It is one of the oldest continuously serving women’s groups in the diocese.
Strange as it may seem, I’ve been vaguely worried about the beatification on May 1 of a man with whom I was in close conversation for over a decade and to the writing of whose biography I dedicated 15 years of my own life.
My worries don’t have to do with allegations of a “rushed” beatification process; the process has been a thorough one, and the official judgment is the same as the judgment of the people of the Church.
I’m also unconcerned about the fretting of ultra-traditionalists for whom John Paul II was a failure because he didn’t restore the French monarchy, impose the Tridentine Mass on the entire Church, and issue thundering anathemas against theologians and wayward politicians.
