Month: May 2015

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Kevin Wondrash

Facilitator training retreat for Lord Teach Me to Pray series

BARABOO — The Midwest Facilitator Training Retreat for the Lord Teach Me to Pray (LTMTP) Series will be held Friday to Sunday, May 29 to 31, at Durward’s Glen Retreat and Conference Center.

Training for part one of LTMTP, Praying the Christian Virtues, will begin Friday night at 6:30 p.m. Mass and end Saturday at 3 p.m.

Training for part two of LTMTP, “My 19th Annotation,” will begin Saturday evening at 7 p.m. and end Sunday at 12 noon. There will be Mass on both Saturday and Sunday morning at 8 a.m. during the retreat.

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John Huebscher

Minimum wage recognizes dignity of all who work

Eye on the Capitol by John Huebscher column logo

We often hear it said that having a job gives people dignity. That is not quite right. The dignity inherent in every human being is a gift from the loving God who created us.

This human dignity is ours when we are too young to work. And we retain it when we are too ill, too disabled, or too old to work or when unemployed.

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Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

Remember our deceased veterans

Several years ago, I made my first visit to Arlington National Cemetery. I had a specific destination: to visit the grave of one of our deceased neighbors.

She had served as a nurse during World War II and met her husband during the war. They decided to be buried at Arlington.

However, when she died, her husband was not able to attend the burial ceremony there because of his age and health. I happened to be traveling to Washington, D.C., for a meeting, so I told him I would visit her grave and take pictures.

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Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

Mary has been with Mother Olga throughout her life

VERONA — “The only way I was able to get to all these places and get to where I am today is because of one mother.”

When Mother Olga — who spoke the above words — talks about her life, people listen. When the gentle soul, only 4’10” but tall in love of Jesus and love for Mary, shared her story with hundreds of people, all eyes and ears were focused on her. She got everyone’s full attention.

On Thursday, May 7, St. Christopher Parish in Verona hosted the spring St. Thérèse Lecture called “From Baghdad to Boston: A Journey under the Shadow of Our Lady.”

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Bill Van Wagner, For the Catholic Herald

Pope visits Pontifical North American College

ROME, Italy — Seminarians studying in the city of Rome have the special grace of being in close proximity to the Holy Father.

This closeness is manifested not only in the spiritual sense of being under the guidance and care of the shepherd of the whole universal Church, but in a particular way by being present with His Holiness during Wednesday audiences, Sunday Angelus addresses, and various liturgical celebrations throughout the year.

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Jean Mueller

Supporting a parent’s decision

Ask Jean by Jean Mueller column logo

Q My mother insists on living in the home she and dad shared for the past 50 years. Dad passed away about eight years ago.

The issue is the “homestead” — a farm that is over 100 years old.

The house is in desperate need of repair but that is only one issue.

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Fr. Robert Barron

Modern Culture and science

Third in a series of reflections by Fr. Robert Barron on the life of Cardinal Francis George.

The second major feature of modernity that Cardinal Francis George identified is an extreme valorization of the physical sciences, or in his own words, “the imposing of scientific method as the point of contact between human beings and the world and society into which they are born.”

The founders of modernity appreciated the sciences not only for their descriptive and predictive powers, but also for their liberating potential. Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, Kant, and many others held that the mastery over nature provided by burgeoning physics, chemistry, medicine, etc., would free the human race from its age-old captivity to sickness and the strictures of time and space.

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