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I write these words on Holy Thursday, as the Christian world enters into the holiest and most spiritually intense time of the year. The long season of Lent has prepared us to delve once more into the mystery of the dying and rising of the Lord Jesus.
As I have been contemplating the events of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, my mind has turned, again and again, to the brute fact of pain.
Under the direction of Dr. Patrick Gorman, the Madison Diocesan Choir will celebrate Fifty Days of Easter with alleluias, Scripture readings, and congregational hymns, in a free spring concert entitled He is risen indeed! on Friday evening, May 17, at Holy Name Heights.
In honor of the Feast of St. Philip, Fr. Jim Murphy has scheduled a Mass on Sunday, May 5, at 1 p.m. at St. Philip Church in Highland.
The annual White Mass for those who work in health care will be held on Sunday, May 19 [2019], at 11 a.m. at St. Maria Goretti Church 5313 Flad Ave.
Queridos Feligreses de la Diócesis de Madison:
Annuntio Vobis Gaudium Magnum — ¡Les tengo noticias de gran alegría! Es con honor y con un gran placer que yo, el actual Administrador Diocesano de la Diócesis de Madison, anuncio que Su Santidad, Papa Francisco, ha nombrado al Reverendísimo Donald J. Hying, el Quinto Obispo de Madison.
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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.
It is with honor and great pleasure that I … announce that His Holiness, Pope Francis, has appointed Most Reverend Donald J. Hying, the Fifth Bishop of Madison.
“I’m very enthused, excited, and grateful to be here,” said Bishop-designate Donald J. Hying of Madison.
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We stand at a pivotal point in the great moral debate over abortion in our country — not because new arguments have emerged, but rather because laws so breathtaking in their barbarism have been passed, and a film so visceral in its presentation of the reality of abortion has found a wide audience.
As John Henry Newman reminded us, assent to a proposition is rarely a matter of acquiescing to rational demonstration alone; instead, it often has to do with the accumulation of argument, image, impression, experience, and witness.
Approximately 11 years ago, Drs. Michael Kloess and Anne Volk-Johnson had a dream of practicing family medicine on their own terms.
That meant making the best decisions for their patients, without input from insurance company representatives, or oversight from hospital or clinic administrators; and it meant being able to incorporate the Church’s teachings on Corporal Works of Mercy and the sanctity of human life.
