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On November 20, 2019May 25, 2023
Elizabeth Durack, For the Catholic Herald

Women pray for priests in Seven Sisters Apostolate

It’s simple: seven women each pray a Eucharistic Holy Hour one day a week for one priest.

I became the “anchoress” of a Seven Sisters Apostolate group last September.

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  • Letters to the editor
On July 25, 2019
Elizabeth Durack

Speak up for public morality; teach virtues

To the editor:

We have in my neighborhood in Madison annually a kind of reenactment of the tornado of human bodies witnessed by Dante in the Inferno’s scene about sins against chastity: a nude swarm swirling around busy downtown on bicycles, eliciting a wave of stares, grins, whoops, glee, and photo taking by bystanders, as perhaps the demons enjoy seeing tormented souls, and certainly a vignette of post-sexual-revolution social sin.

Madison’s “World Naked Bike Ride” either opposes fossil fuels or celebrates the immunity of moral chaos to correction by authority. Not everyone experiences it as altogether benign: a local woman who had been sexually assaulted in early life recently told a journalist that “seeing dozens, often hundreds of naked bodies unexpectedly is a trigger for her.”

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  • Around the Diocese
On September 12, 2013May 25, 2023
Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

Catholic bloggers: a new kind of missionary

Whether you’re an active web surfer, or just like to keep up on modern jargon, you may be familiar with the term “blogging.”

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