Month: November 2014

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Kevin Wondrash

Faith stories at Stoughton parish

STOUGHTON — You are invited and encouraged to attend a powerful witnessing of faith where John Gray and Meg Veek, parishioners at St. Ann Parish, Stoughton, will share their love for Christ and how important he is to their daily life. The event will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 p.m. in Healy Hall at St. Ann Church, Stoughton.

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Fr. Robert Barron

Revisiting spiritual welfare

In the sixth chapter of St. Mark’s Gospel, we find the account of Jesus sending out the Twelve, two by two, on mission.

The first thing he gave them, Mark tells us, was “authority over unclean spirits.” And the first pastoral act that they performed was to “drive out many demons.”

The reality of evil spirits

When I was coming of age in the ’60s and ’70s, it was common, even in seminaries, to dismiss such talk as primitive superstition — or perhaps to modernize it and make it a literary device using symbolic language evocative of the struggle with evil in the abstract.

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Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

Tale of two dying persons

How sad it was to hear of the death of Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman who ended her own life on November 1 using Oregon’s assisted suicide law.

Maynard suffered greatly from terminal brain cancer, and we can understand her wish to stop her pain and suffering.

More hopeful path

However, the story of another young person who is also facing death shows, I believe, a more hopeful way to face death.

A  Catholic News Service article reported on Philip Johnson, a 30-year-old Catholic seminarian in the Diocese of  Raleigh, N.C., who is facing the same disease as Maynard. He wrote a poignant essay in October responding to Maynard’s decision to end her own life.

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Fr. Tom Schroeder dies

Fr. Thomas Schroeder

MADISON — A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated for Fr. Thomas Schroeder, pastor emeritus of the Diocese of Madison, at St. Martin of Tours Church, 5959 St. Martin Cir., Cross Plains (Martinsville), on Friday, Nov. 14,  at 11:30 a.m.

Bishop Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, will be the celebrant with Very Reverend Fr. Tait Schroeder, Judicial Vicar and nephew of Father Schroeder, as homilist.  Interment will take place immediately following the Mass at the St. Martin of Tours Parish cemetery, with the Rite of Committal presided by Father Schroeder.

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Pat Casucci, Catholic Herald Correspondent

VetsRoll offers opportunity to say ‘thank you’ to veterans

BELOIT — Imagine 200 veterans from World War II (WWII) and the Korean War era along with “Rosie-the-Riveters” being honored by VetsRoll as they travel along with 100 volunteer assistants in 10 luxury buses to visit war memorials and other sites in the Washington, D. C., area.

Included on the itinerary are the WWII Memorial, Korean War Memorial, National Marine Corps Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery, and also the Dayton, Ohio, Wright Patterson AFB Air Museum.

Saying thank you in special way

VetsRoll provides a four-day all expenses paid trip, safe ground transportation, and an enjoyable experience. According to the founders of VetsRoll, brothers Mark and John Finnegan, traveling in the luxury buses provides the flexibility of socializing, watching videos, restrooms, camaraderie, and most importantly, closure.

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