“Get out of the truck!” said my friend, Fr. Leo Kazeri, as we approached his mission church at Etaro, in Tanzania. Along with Fr. Deogratias Makuri, a young priest assisting Father Leo, we were arriving to celebrate Mass, but the road was blocked by over 100 people, smiling in welcome.
Father Deo and I got out, Father Leo drove off, and the people formed a procession with glorious singing and dancing, escorting me to their church.
For Catholics, Lent is an important time to prepare the soul — a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving as we journey to Christ’s death and resurrection.
But for the hundreds of people who were sent forth from parishes around the diocese to the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion, this Lent is something more.
Many families today seem to be out of control. All we have to do is watch the Nanny show on television to see how children often run wild in many homes.
The Diocese of Madison invites married couples to share their marriage and their faith with newly engaged couples.
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| Vicki Thorn, founder of Milwaukee-based post-abortion healing program Project Rachel and speaker at the St. Thérèse of Lisieux lecture in Madison on February 19, answers questions from attendees John and Olivia Bohn after the lecture. (Catholic Herald photo/Kat Wagner) |
MADISON — In a lecture touted as “What they don’t teach you in sex ed,” speaker Vicki Thorn offered real-world rationale for the “whys” behind Catholic teaching on human sexuality, drawing on various aspects of scientific research to prove her counter-cultural points.
“This is a remarkable, interconnected gift from God,” Thorn said of human sexuality during her hour-and-a-half talk, part of the semiannual St. Thérèse of Lisieux Lecture Series. “When we tinker with it, we mess things up.
The Rite of Election of catechumens and Call to Continuing Conversion for candidates for full communion in the Catholic Church will be celebrated on Sunday, March 1, at 3 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Church in Waunakee.
People living in cities rarely get the chance to meet the people who grow their food. That’s one reason why the Churches Center for Land and People (CCLP) has developed an opportunity to connect farmers with urban consumers.
The Wisconsin Catholic Conference (WCC) has endorsed Senate Bill 1, legislation that would increase the minimum wage for workers in Wisconsin.
The Diocese of Madison’s Rural Life Office reports that two tractors and some equipment have been donated in response to a request from Family Farm Defenders President John Kinsman, LaValle.
Camp Gray, a year-round Catholic retreat center and summer camp in central Wisconsin, is seeking faith-filled young adults for its volunteer retreat team for the 2009 to 2010 school year.
