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Supporting ‘life always’ at Edgewood High

MADISON — A group of students from Edgewood High School (EHS)were among the tens of thousands who gathered in Washington, D.C., on January 22 for the 36th annual March for Life, reflecting a growing awareness at the school for the need to address the issues of respect for life.

“It’s important for us to be faithful citizens and to advocate for life and fairness,” said Tonya Bubolz, a religious studies teacher at EHS and a moderator of two relatively new activities at the school dedicated towards raising awareness of life issues.

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Reflexiones en la inauguración y el tema de la esperanza

Ilustración del Libro del Evangelio abierto por encima de la cabeza del ObispoEstimados amigos,

Como muchos de ustedes, estoy seguro, yo he mirado, con interés, los acontecimientos que ocurrieron la semana pasada.  Nuestro país ha atestiguado un acontecimiento enormemente histórico con la inauguración de presidente Barack Obama – un acontecimiento que habla de los enormes pasos que nuestro país ha hecho, incluso en mi curso de la vida, en términos de igualdad racial.  Aunque se ha convertido en un cliché excesivo en las semanas recientes, habían épocas en que nadie en mi generación habría podido soñar que “veríamos este día.”

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Stance of Catholics on war considered a pro-life issue

To the editor:

I commend the publication of Fr. Jim Murphy’s letter in the December 25 edition of the Madison Catholic Herald. He brought up a topic we, as Catholics, need to consider. I, too, am concerned about the participation of Catholics in unprovoked wars. I think Father Murphy’s admonition of prudent caution regarding Catholic involvement in the U.S. military at this time is well spoken.

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Engaging in service ‘for the greater glory of God’

Our Catholic Schools by Michael Lancaster

Ad majorem Dei gloriam — It was the first Latin phrase that I committed to memory. The cross and the four letters A.M.D.G. were mandatory on all homework assignments for Sister Dolorosa’s eighth grade class.

At my home parish, eighth grade meant not only graduation, but Confirmation, and Confirmation meant knowing who you were, why you were created, and what God wanted you to do. In eighth grade it was difficult enough to discern right from wrong, much less discern the will of God in your life. How do you hear God through the voices of friends, raging hormones, new and strange emotions, and trying to retain the pleasures of childhood while balancing on the edge of an adult world?

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