Year: 2016

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Fr. Donald Lange

We should respect all life, especially the unborn

Respect Life Month in October invites us to respect life across the board. We should especially respect and defend the rights of helpless unborn babies who cannot defend themselves.

The 2016 Doritos Super Bowl commercial showed an unborn baby in his or her mother’s womb. To me, this was natural and obvious. I was familiar with advances in ultrasound imaging and I think that human life begins at conception as the Church teaches.

Life in the womb can’t be denied

I didn’t expect it, but I wasn’t surprised by comments from some affiliated with the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) who criticized Doritos for “humanizing fetuses.” Cal Thomas of the Tribune Content Agency responded, “Humanizing fetuses? What does that sonogram image show if not a human?” He added, “Pro-choice persons fear the sonogram because it shows an image whose humanness cannot be denied.”

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Chris Lee

St. Vincent de Paul has county’s largest food pantry

MADISON — The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has Dane County’s largest food pantry.

In its last fiscal year, the pantry served 20,577 families, providing food valued at $1,445,325.

Hosted by trained volunteers, the customer choice food pantry offers customers the opportunity to shop once a month for everyday staples such as flour and oil, select from fresh produce — some from the society’s own Lacy Food Pantry Garden — and choose from a wide array of culturally appropriate and healthy foods.

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Sr. Constance Veit

The Culture of Life begins in our hearts and our hands

Sr. Constance Veit

Each October we observe Respect Life Month in dioceses throughout the United States. Although ending abortion remains a priority of the utmost importance, threats to the disabled and those at the end of life deserve our attention as well.

The legalization of medically assisted suicide in Canada in June should serve as a wake-up call compelling us to reach out in solidarity to our most vulnerable brothers and sisters.

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Bishop Robert Barron

Dipped in the Holy Spirit and set on fire

Revealing one of the most significant themes in Catholic theology, namely, the play between nature and grace, St. Luke tells us that people came to John the Baptist, asking what they should do to reform their lives. John responds with good and very pointed moral advice.

To the tax collectors he says, “Don’t take more money than you ought” and to the soldiers he urges, “Do not practice extortion, do not falsely accuse anyone; be content with your pay.”

In so saying, he was addressing very common practices of that time and place. Tax collectors regularly demanded more money than was just and skimmed the surplus for themselves — which helps to explain why they were so unpopular. And soldiers — young men with weapons and too much time on their hands — predictably acted as bully-boys, extorting money through threats of violence.

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Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

OAR Northwest team makes stop at St. Charles School in Cassville

CASSVILLE — Students at St. Charles Borromeo School in Cassville recently made some new friends.

Their names are Audra, Calli, Eric, Jordan, and Sam. They are the crew members of the 2016 OAR Northwest.

OAR Northwest is a non-profit organization based out of Seattle, Wash.

It does human-powered water-based expeditions of large water bodies such as rivers and oceans.

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