Msgr. James Bartylla, Vicar General, announces the following priest appointments made by Most Reverend Donald J. Hying, Bishop of Madison, announced Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17:
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A look at Veritatis Splendor, part two
Promulgated on August 6, 1993, by St. John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor is the holy pontiff’s articulation of Catholic moral principles.
The Church’s ‘ultimate trial’
An intriguing paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I have often pondered, is #675: “The Church’s ultimate trial. Before Christ’s second coming, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution which accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil ‘the mystery of iniquity’ in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.”
Come, Holy Spirit
Last weekend we finished the Easter season with the celebration of Pentecost, the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples gathered with the holy women and the Blessed Virgin in the Upper Room.
The Church and human dignity
Through the Catholic faith, God has revealed to us the mystery and meaning of our human nature. Our fundamental identity rests in our relationship with the One who created, saved, and sanctified us.
The Resurrection and its place in our lives
Matthew is the only Gospel to narrate the plot of the chief priests in Jerusalem to discredit the truth of the Resurrection of Jesus by bribing the guards at the tomb to say that the disciples had stolen the body of Jesus at night. (Matthew 28: 11-15)
Embrace Holy Saturday
In celebrating the Sacred Triduum, we can easily pass over the significance of Holy Saturday. We move from the pathos of Good Friday to the joy of the Easter Vigil on Saturday night, with just a few brief hours in between.
Satisfying Christ’s ‘thirst’
“I thirst,” Jesus said in John 19:28. Imagine how physically thirsty Jesus was on the Cross!
Statement from Bishop Hying on the ‘Synodal Way’ process from bishops in Germany
For three years, the leaders of the Catholic Church in Germany have been involved in their “Synodal Way,” a process of conversation and decisions among the bishops and laity, regarding Church doctrine and practice, which culminated recently in three days of voting on particular issues.
Behold your mother
“When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother’. And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.” (John 19: 25-27)