MC FARLAND — What would compel a group of seven Wisconsin suburbanites to leave the comfort of their homes and families and head to Juarez, Mexico, for one week to build a house?
Author: Chris Lee
A Catholic physician’s perspective on the health care debate
Here are several points to consider from a Catholic family physician regarding the health care debate that I do not hear very often.
Stupak amendment is compromise
First, news, and even Catholic news, venues often refer to the Stupak amendment as something good in prohibiting funding of abortions except in limited circumstances. However, what is often not mentioned is that in those circumstances, which include rape, incest, and threats to the mother’s life, there is an innocent living infant fetus who is murdered.
UW-Madison campus ministry numbers explode
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| Ten of 12 — Pictured are 10 of the dozen recent college graduates who are dedicating at least one year to serve at St. Paul’s University Catholic Center in Madison. (Contributed photo by Carolyn Averill) |
MADISON — Since 1909, St. Paul University Catholic Center has been a home for the thousands of Catholic students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
St. Paul’s exists primarily to serve the students at UW– Madison, offering a wide array of programming to reach a student population of over 42,000, of which over 10,000 were raised Catholic. With an expanding pastoral staff and continued investment in outreach and programming, St. Paul’s is better equipped to reach out to students on campus and help them mature intellectually, spiritually, and morally.
Benefit dinner supports Camp Gray’s mission
BARABOO — On any given summer Saturday night in the Wisconsin Dells, one is bound to see a large group of young Catholic adults. They are likely cleaned up and celebrating the end of another week at Camp Gray, while also anticipating the next group of campers coming on Sunday.
Catholic Charities: Helping many in the Diocese of Madison
Guided by Catholic Social Teaching, the mission of Catholic Charities is to provide compassionate, caring service designed to help those in need.
Witnessing to hope — Stories from the missions
Hopelessness. At times the feeling may overwhelm us — maybe as we watch the pain and suffering of others, as we all witnessed recently from the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Perhaps we feel hopeless from the challenges and trials in our own lives, maybe our financial worries, an illness, or anxieties for someone we love, or for ourselves.
On a small island in the Philippines, Nene watched her mother experience such feelings. Confined to her bed because of illness, Nene’s mother couldn’t care for her family. She felt helpless — hopeless.
El hijo pródigo: una historia de dos “mocosos”
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| Esta columna está dirigida a los fieles de la Diócesis de Madison. Cualquier circulación más amplia transgrede la intención del Obispo. |
La historia que hemos escuchado en el Evangelio del Domingo, la historia (como es llamada) del “Hijo Pródigo” es verdaderamente genial. Tengo un amigo obispo que siempre se refiere a ella, no como a la parábola del Hijo Pródigo, sino como la “parábola de los dos mocosos” (niños). En realidad, es exactamente eso.
Miremos brevemente al primer hijo. Refiriéndose a esta historia el pasado fin de semana, el Papa Benedicto habló sobre como, mientras los jóvenes crecen, se da en ellos un periodo de “dependencia infantil” de sus padres, durante el cual practican la “obediencia infantil”. Luego, en los años adolescentes, tienen la idea de que deben ser libres y más independientes de sus padres. Y luego cantan esa vieja canción “I gotta be free, I gotta be me”. (Tengo que ser libre, tengo que ser yo)
Both forms of the Mass are beautiful ways to worship
To the editor:
This is in response to the article entitled “Concerns about Returning to the Use of Latin in Mass.” First of all, I do not understand why there is so much concern about offering the Extraordinary Form of the Mass in Latin along with the Ordinary Form of the Mass in English.
No one is being forced to attend the Latin Mass. It is there for those who prefer to worship God as the Church has done for centuries and who find this traditional form of worship to be very meaningful, reverent, and spiritually uplifting.
Modern liturgy is gift from Holy Spirit, joyful experience
To the editor:
I’m wondering what past century Kenneth J. Wolfe dropped in on us from after I read “Latin Mass Appeal.” His indictment of Cardinal Bugnini as the sole “perpetrator” behind liturgical reform (even hinting that Bugnini was really a Freemason) would be laughable if Wolfe weren’t so serious. Remember that the bishops and cardinals of Vatican II voted overwhelmingly for reform.
Raised a Catholic in pre-Vatican II times, I experienced the traditional Latin Mass with the priest facing the tabernacle and whispering in a foreign language. I was an altar boy, trained to respond in Latin though I had only a faint idea of what the responses meant. I experienced hundreds of Latin Masses in which, as a member of the congregation, I dutifully forced myself to focus my attention on the Latin-speaking priest.
Retreat offers youth a chance to gain a listening heart
MADISON — “What do many of you listen to?” Bishop Robert C. Morlino asked during his homily at the Youth 2000 retreat February 27, naming off popular artists like Lady Gaga and Ludacris and gaining laughter from the youth.