MADISON — Our Lady of Hope Clinic and the Women’s Care Center are partnering to hold “A Celebration of Life” with a benefit dinner for both organizations to be held on Saturday, May 10, at the Alliant Energy Center.
Members of the community are welcome to attend. The benefit will begin with cocktails at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner and a program detailing how both organizations have worked to build a culture of life in Dane County.
In this fifth week of Lent, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) highlights Haiti, where CRS has been serving since 1954.
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. With almost 70 years of experience, CRS works to alleviate suffering and provide assistance to people in need in nearly 100 countries, without regard to race, religion, or nationality.
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Recently two outrageously anti-Catholic outbursts took place in the public forum.
The first was an article in the US News and World Report by syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm. Ms. Stiehm argued that the Supreme Court was dangerously packed with Catholics, who have, she averred, a terribly difficult time separating church from state and who just can’t refrain from imposing their views on others.
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Queridos amigos:
“La noche viene cuando nadie puede trabajar”, escuchamos en la lectura del Evangelio el domingo pasado (Jn 9:4).
Jesús les dice a sus discípulos: hagan las obras de Dios mientras es de día, porque “la noche viene cuando nadie puede trabajar”.
Nadie puede trabajar y, debo agregar, nada funciona. Y sugeriría demás que la noche ya ha llegado.
Hemos celebrado el domingo al que llamamos “Domingo de la alegría” y nos damos cuenta de que tenemos que alegrarnos en la verdad. Dios nos da la gracia de alegrarnos en la verdad. Y la verdad es que la noche ha llegado y nada y nadie funciona, ¡pero la espléndida Luz de la Resurrección hará que la noche sea tan brillante como el día!
La historia del ciego de nacimiento, al que vemos en la lectura del Evangelio, es en muchas formas una alegoría de nuestra propia cultura y de nuestra propia sociedad. Es una cultura y una sociedad de muerte. Una cultura en la que ha descendido la noche y en la que nada funciona.
SINSINAWA — Sister Rosula Holzmann, OP, died March 29, 2014. The funeral Mass was held in Queen of the Rosary Chapel at Sinsinawa April 4, 2014, followed by burial in the Motherhouse Cemetery.
Sister Rosula made her first religious profession as a Sinsinawa Dominican Aug. 6, 1940, and her final profession Aug. 6, 1943. She taught for 55 years and served as a tutor for four years. Sister Rosula ministered at Camp WeHaKee, Winter, Wis., for over 25 years during summer camp. She served in Minnesota, Illinois, California, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia.
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MADISON — Inspired by Pope Francis’ emphasis on charity and social justice, the Diocese of Madison’s Office of Evangelization and Catechesis has initiated several activities.
One is the sponsorship of two courses on Catholic Social Doctrine taught by Dr. Constance Nielsen throughout the year in different locations.
Another is a special event welcoming Dr. Carolyn Woo of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to be the guest lecturer at this spring’s St. Thérèse Lecture.
Dr. Woo will address the topic “The One-Handed Gospel: You Did It for Me” (taken from the words of Blessed Mother Teresa)” on Friday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Bishop O’Connor Center, 702 S. High Point Rd.
Dr. Woo assumed the position of CEO and president of CRS in January of 2012. CRS was founded in 1943 by the Catholic bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe. Since then, it has expanded in size to reach more than 100 million people in nearly 100 countries on five continents.
Representing CRS, Dr. Woo was featured in Foreign Policy (May/June, 2013) as one of the 500 most powerful people on the planet and one of only 33 in the category of “a force for good.”
Twenty-five years ago, on January 27, 1989, a joint statement from the communist government of Poland, the Solidarity trade union, and the Catholic Church announced a national “Roundtable” to discuss the country’s future, including major structural issues of political and economic reform.
The Roundtable began the following month; basic agreements were reached in April; partially-free elections, swept by Solidarity candidates, were held in June; and in September a Solidarity leader, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, became Poland’s first non-communist prime minister since World War II.
MADISON — In August of this year, Lumen House will open its doors to residents in the downtown area near the UW-Madison campus.
The Lumen House project allows Catholic students actively involved in the ministries of St. Paul’s University Catholic Center or the Cathedral Parish to pay rent at a reduced rate. It also offers a $100 a month, per person, rent scholarship to students actively involved with St. Paul’s.
MADISON — This past fall, the Catholic Multicultural Center (CMC) received a grant from the Apostolate to the Handicapped, Inc., of the Diocese of Madison to implement programs to aid its Latino community with special needs.
Specifically, the $8,940 grant provides funding for a Latino support program called Familias Unidas con Niños con Necesidades Especiales (FUNNE), or Families United with Children with Special Needs.
SINSINAWA — Sister Christopher Krell, OP, died March 27, 2014, at St. Dominic Villa. The funeral Mass was held in Queen of the Rosary Chapel at Sinsinawa March 31, 2014, followed by burial in the Motherhouse Cemetery.
Sister Christopher made her first religious profession as a Sinsinawa Dominican Jan. 26, 1937, and her final profession Aug. 5, 1940. She served as a culinary artist for 60 years in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa.
