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As Madison’s new bishop, Bishop Donald J. Hying says he feels “very much at home here.”
In fact, he noted that about half of his relatives live in the Diocese of Madison, most of them in the southwestern Counties of Grant and Iowa.
“It’s great to come home to the state,” he repeated in a press conference, at a meeting with diocesan staff, at a 12 noon Mass, and in an interview with this writer and Tim Hein of Relevant Radio.
MILWAUKEE — If you’ve watched Milwaukee Brewers baseball or Milwaukee Bucks basketball broadcasts on Fox Sports Wisconsin the past couple of seasons, you’ve probably seen her.
Madison native Sophia Minnaert is the sideline reporter for the two teams.
A few years ago, she got her “start” as an intern at the Catholic Herald in Madison.
Minnaert’s parents are well known in the Diocese of Madison. Her father, Al, is the head football coach and a religious studies and physical education teacher at Edgewood High School in Madison. Her mother, Sylvia, is the receptionist at Our Lady Queen of Peace School in Madison.
SINSINAWA — Most people know about the war effort in Afghanistan, but few of us know the stories of those who are working to create a nation where peace overcomes violence.
The Sinsinawa Dominican Office of Peace and Justice is offering a presentation to inform people of the efforts of peacemakers in Afghanistan. It will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 16, at Sinsinawa Mound.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated for Msgr. George M. Hastrich on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Patrick Church of the Cathedral Parish of St. Raphael in Madison. Bishop Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, will be the main celebrant with Msgr. Kevin Holmes, rector of Cathedral Parish, as homilist.
After hearing about the death of journalist James Foley, I learned that he was a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee.
Marquette’s website (www.marquette.edu) has lots of information about James Foley. Perhaps the most moving to me was a letter he wrote to Marquette after his first capture in 2011 upon returning home safely from Libya.
In that letter, Foley talks about the strength he drew not only from his own prayers, but also from the prayers of his family and friends. He tells how he and his colleague, Clare, prayed together in captivity.
MONTELLO — The next Fr. Marquette Living Faith Series will be held on Wednesday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Parish in Montello.
Speakers will be John and Sarah Ramthun, founders of the non profit organization 6:8 from Sauk Prairie. 6:8 is local non– profit organization that strives to transform communities by making service personal through intentional community. 6:8 is supported by the four pillars of: Experience (Micah 6:8), Education (Mark 6:8), Exhortation (Isaiah 6:8), and Embodiment (1 Timothy 6:8)
In the recent struggle between Scott Walker and the public sector unions, many people have asked where Catholic social teaching stands in this debate. The “both/and” nature of Church teaching yet again finds Catholics on both sides of the argument. While the Church offers “no technical solutions” (Caritas in veritate 10) it does provide the principles upon which to frame the debate.
