STOUGHTON — When Stoughton student Jennifer Yelk decided to help raise funds for the four St. Ann youth who are planning to go to Madrid, Spain, next summer for World Youth Day, she designed a personalized World Youth Day geocoin, used in a popular treasure hunting game.
Month: November 2010
Seat of Wisdom courses offered for adults
The Seat of Wisdom Diocesan Institute is offering adult-level courses in Catholic doctrine at regional locations across the Diocese of Madison.
St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital is hiring management team
With much of the new St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital structure now in place, attention is quickly turning to who will work in the new facility.
Tony Magliano confuses some Church teaching with progressive opinions
To the editor:
Tony Magliano has a habit of confusing Church teaching with his progressive opinions. His most recent November 4 column begins post election recalling the “quite difficult” decision in voting for the “most ethical candidates.” It was not difficult; most were clearly either pro-life or pro-choice, the first qualifying factor according to our pope and bishops.
Campaign spending: Imagine what else we could do with $4 billion
The 2010 elections are over and most of us are breathing a sigh of relief. Even if we didn’t like the outcome of some races, we are probably happy to see the end of bitter campaigning, annoying phone calls, and repetitive radio and television ads.
What really upset me were reports on campaign spending in the 2010 elections. The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) reported that more than $4 billion, or the annual GDP of Mongolia, was spent on this election.
Why does the Church continue to engage the secular media and is it worth it?
About two and a half years ago, I posed a very similar question here in the Catholic Herald, and it is time we revisit this question.
Let’s get straight to the point. Recent stories throughout the world on the Catholic Church and even local interactions with the secular media make one wonder if it is worth the Church continuing to work at maintaining relationships with the traditional media or whether it would be more effective to direct our time and energies in different and non-traditional avenues.
Appointment (Nov. 11, 2010 edition)
Rev. Msgr. James Bartylla, Vicar General, announces the following appointment made by Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison:
Getting ready for Advent … of 2011
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| This column is the bishop’s communication with the faithful of the Diocese of Madison. Any wider circulation reaches beyond the intention of the bishop. |
Dear Friends,
We are approaching, hard as it is to believe, the First Sunday of Advent 2010. On the First Sunday of Advent 2011 we shall begin to use the new translations of our liturgical prayers at all of our Masses throughout the diocese and throughout our country. The new translations are in fact translations into English, though they sound differently than the translations to which we have become accustomed since the Second Vatican Council. In the translations presently at use, certain Latin words are left untranslated, and certain sentences or parts of sentences are more a “paraphrase” than a formal translation.
The new translation is a formal translation from the Latin to the English. No Latin words are omitted in the translation and the rich biblical allusions in the original Latin are all restored. For example, when the priest elevates the host just before Communion the congregation will say, “Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof.” In this we are reminded of and echo the part of the Centurion in the familiar Gospel passage (Mt 8:8), a reminder which is lost when we simply say, “Lord I am not worthy to receive you.”
Deacon Wes Brush dies
MADISON — A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Maria Goretti Church in Madison at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 18, for Deacon Wesley J. “Wes” Brush, Jr., who died on November 5 at St. Mary’s Care Center in Madison.
Deacons ordained for diocese
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| Bishop Robert C. Morlino prays the prayer of ordination over the three candidates for the transitional diaconate — two of whom were seminarians for the Diocese of Madison — during the Mass of Ordination to the Transitional Diaconate at the American College in Louvain, Belgium, October 15. (Photo by Scott Haraldson) |
LOUVAIN, Belgium — Bishop Robert C. Morlino of the Diocese of Madison ordained Chad Droessler and John Putzer from the Diocese of Madison and Kevin Barnekow from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee as transitional deacons on October 15 at the historic Saint Peter’s Church at the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Louvain, Belgium.
Concelebrants at the Mass included Bishop Richard Spencer, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services (seminarians at Louvain have pastoral assignments with the military services in Europe); Msgr. Ross Shecterle, rector of the American College; Fr. Paul Ugo Arinze, director of vocations for the Diocese of Madison; and priest friends and guests of the newly ordained. Msgr. James Bartylla, vicar general of the Diocese of Madison, was one of the masters of ceremonies for the Mass.
A number of priests from the Diocese of Madison attended the ordination, including Msgr. Kevin Holmes, Msgr. Charles Schluter, and Fr. David Carrano, Madison; Fr. David Flanagan, Cuba City; Fr. Monte Robinson, Belmont; Fr. Tait Schroeder and Fr. Greg Ihm, studying in Rome; and Fr. Lance Schneider, Waunakee.