MADISON — “In 1985, we plan to open a Christian Action Council Crisis Pregnancy Center. The Pregnancy Information Center, as it will be called, will provide Madison with a needed service and give Christians an opportunity to serve the Lord in our own community.”
MADISON — Pregnancy Helpline volunteers and staff find joy in creating new possibilities for people.
As the public becomes more concerned over the health of our environment, Catholics and Church leadership at multiple levels have engaged environmental issues.
In recent years, Catholics in the U.S. have participated in environmental advocacy through the efforts of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, Catholic Relief Services, and other groups.
During the preparation of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Pope Paul VI proposed that the constitution’s discussion of papal primacy include the affirmation that the pope is “accountable to the Lord alone.”
This suggestion was rejected by the council’s Theological Commission, which wrote that “the Roman Pontiff is also bound to revelation itself, to the fundamental structure of the Church, to the sacraments, to the definitions of earlier councils, and other obligations too numerous to mention.”
Pope Paul quietly dropped his proposal.
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En nombre de todos los sacerdotes de la Diócesis de Madison, y en nombre de todo mi personal, quiero ofrecerles mis sinceras y continuas oraciones en Pascua, en este tiempo de Resurrección.
Cada uno de ustedes cuenta con nuestras oraciones por su salud, seguridad, y por encima de todo, por una unión más profunda con Cristo. Les ruego, también, ofrecer sus oraciones de Pascua por nosotros, porque cada uno de nosotros y nuestra Iglesia ciertamente se basa en la necesidad de la oración. Quería compartir con ustedes unos cuantos pensamientos que ofrecí en la Vigilia Pascual este año.
Celebramos el Domingo de Pascua este año el 4 de abril, el día en el que Cristo fue resucitado de entre los muertos, el día en que cambió la historia para siempre. De alguna forma había esperado ver algunos grandes letreros y avisos en el Domingo de Pascua sobre cómo había sucedido la Resurrección de Jesucristo y cómo celebramos nuestra nueva vida el 4 de abril. ¡En vez de eso, todos los avisos me hablaban del lanzamiento del iPad el 3 de abril! Eso me dice –y les debe decir– algo significativo sobre la misión que Jesucristo pone en nuestras manos en esta Pascua y todos los días.
To the editor:
The Healthy Youth Act is now Wisconsin law. In public school, sex ed programs’ mandatory topics now include: gender stereotypes, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, use of contraception and barrier methods, and what defines criminal sexual conduct and all using materials which do not promote bias against sexual orientation or sexually active children or pupils.
To the editor:
In 1917, Jacinta Marto, one of three seers of Fatima, saw in a vision “the Holy Father in a very big house, kneeling by a table, with his head buried in his hands, and he was weeping. Outside the house, there were many people. Some of them were throwing stones, others were cursinghim and using bad language.”
“Poor Holy Father” she said, “we must pray very much for him.”
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| Bishop Morlino distributes the holy oils to parishes around the diocese. (Catholic Herald photo/Kat Wagner) |
MADISON/VATICAN CITY — The Chrism Mass is held every year during Holy Week to bless the oils to be used throughout the year for the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Ordination, and the Anointing of the Sick.
The Mass also is an opportunity for priests to gather and to renew the promises they made at ordination.
Bishop Robert C. Morlino presided at the Chrism Mass in the Diocese of Madison on the Tuesday of Holy Week, March 30. Hundreds of priests, religious, seminarians, and laity filled St. Maria Goretti Church for the diocesan celebration.
After acknowledging the presence of Bishops William H. Bullock and George O. Wirz, Canon John Pintabone, Fr. Isaac Mary Relyea, and the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre in his opening remarks, Bishop Morlino thanked all of the priests from around the diocese who came to the Mass.
MADISON — Four ex-offenders spoke about their lives at a recent celebration marking the seventh anniversary of the Pathfinder Jail Diversion Program.
To the editor:
Just finished reading your editorial, “Media Bias,” in the March 25 issue. I’m disappointed in the whining tone you have taken. I guess you and your family are not one of the many who have been affected by the lecherous activities of your parish priest. “Even if it happened 30 or 40 years ago.”
