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Author: Chris Lee
Lawsuit filed against Madison’s ‘bubble zone’ law
MADISON — On February 26, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a lawsuit in federal court against the City of Madison on behalf of Vigil for Life, Madison (a Pro-Life Wisconsin affiliate) and 10 other “free-speakers” who engage in a variety of leafleting, education, and sign display activities on campus and around Madison.
The suit seeks an emergency injunction against the new law, sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin and passed unanimously by the Madison Common Council on February 25.
Camp Gray benefit dinner
BARABOO — As I rock my newborn baby boy to sleep, gazing at his delightfully squishy face, I can’t help but reflect on all the incredible ways God has brought me to this point in my life.
In so many ways, it all goes back to Camp Gray.
Rezar, examinar la conciencia, guiar a otros
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Queridos amigos:
Esta semana llegamos a la Cuaresma y respecto a esto quisiera pedirles algunas cosas:
1) Recemos el uno por el otro. Sepan que pueden contar con mis oraciones, así como yo las renuevo cada día por cada una de las personas de la diócesis, cada bendito día, les pido que traten de recordarme a mí también.
2) Si quieren, por favor vuelvan a leer mis columnas de las dos semanas pasadas – sobre la conciencia y la corrección fraterna (están disponibles en el sitio web del Madison Catholic Herald — http://www.madisoncatholicherald.org/espanol.html — si es que ya ha leído los números anteriores).
Dense un poco de tiempo para reflexionar al respecto, para examinar su propia conciencia. Dense un buen espacio para eso en esta Cuaresma y piensen en los cambios que pueden hacer en sus propias vidas: de acuerdo a una conciencia bien formada por la Iglesia y orientada hacia la Verdad.
‘Priest, prophet, and king’
Editor’s note: This week we begin publishing the column “Word on Fire” by Fr. Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire Ministries, which reaches millions of people by utilizing the tools of new media to draw people into or back to the Catholic Faith. Father Barron is the creator and host of Catholicism, a groundbreaking, award winning documentary series about the Catholic faith. The series has aired across the country on PBS and EWTN and has been seen and broadcast in parishes, universities, schools, and media outlets throughout the world. The documentary received a Christopher Award for excellence. Father Barron and Word on Fire also released the documentary Catholicism: The New Evangelization in 2013.
A classic characterization of Jesus is that he is priest, prophet, and king. As priest, he sanctifies, that is to say, he reestablishes the lost link between divinity and humanity; as prophet, he speaks and embodies the divine truth; and as king, he leads us on the right path, giving guidance to the human project.
You might say that, as priest, he is the life; as prophet, he is the truth; and as king he is the way.
A simple lesson learned from a child
As a parent, one of my favorite rituals is the evening story time routine with my two girls. They are four and two years old, and sometimes getting them to quiet down takes a few prayers. With patience, they always settle down and look forward to story time as much as I do.
After they’re both in their pajamas, each of them is allowed to pick one book and one story in their Bible. We read the books first and then the two Bible stories.
It amazes me which stories the girls seem to love most and which ones they don’t seem to identify with yet. We’ll talk about the bible stories and I’ll do my best to explain God’s lesson in a way they can understand.
The case for raising the minimum wage
One of the arguments against raising the minimum wage in the United States is that many of those in minimum wage jobs are young workers, either in their teens or early 20s.
Such workers, the argument goes, either lack experience, or in the case of workers under the age of 18, live at home and don’t rely on their income to meet their basic needs.
Pope’s Lenten message: Follow Jesus seeking out poor, sinners
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| Msgr. James Bartylla, vicar general of the Diocese of Madison, distributes ashes on Ash Wednesday in the chapel of the Bishop O’Connor Center, Madison. Ash Wednesday is observed on March 5 this year. (Catholic Herald file photo) | |
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Courageously follow Jesus in seeking out the poor and sinners and in making difficult sacrifices to help and heal others, Pope Francis said in his message for Lent, which begins March 5.
Christians are called to confront the material, spiritual, and moral destitution of “our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own, and to take practical steps to alleviate it,” the pope said in his Lenten message.
Saving the world will not come about “with the right kind of human resources” and token alms, but only “through the poverty of Christ,” who emptied himself of the worldly and made the world rich with God’s love and mercy, Pope Francis said.
Focus on Christ’s poverty
The pope’s message focused on the theme of Christ’s poverty, with the title: “He became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich,” from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians.
Pope Francis said he chose the passage to explore what St. Paul’s references to poverty and charity mean for Christians today.
There are many forms of poverty, he said, including the material destitution that disfigures the face of humanity and the moral destitution of being a slave to vice and sin.
My brief experience as a homeless person
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For quite some time I have had an interest in the plight of the homeless. I have read about it, prayed over it, and have done small things to help.
But feeling that I could, and should, do more to make a difference, I concluded that living as a homeless man — at least for a very brief period — was the best way to understand what it’s like to have no place to call home.
La Iglesia necesita la “dinámica” de la corrección fraterna
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Queridos amigos:
La semana pasada en mi columna hablé sobre la conciencia y me gustaría volver a ella, ya que el Evangelio del domingo pasado contiene el mismo mensaje.
La conciencia debe siempre llevarnos a la perfección. “Sean perfectos como es perfecto vuestro Padre celestial (Mt 5:48)”, es la exhortación de nuestro Señor en el Evangelio del domingo pasado. Una conciencia correctamente formada nunca te dice “¿Qué es lo mínimo que debo hacer para llamarme todavía católico?”
La conciencia no nos hace minimalistas
La conciencia no abre la puerta del minimalismo. No es una herramienta para que digamos “¿Cómo puedo permitirme hacer lo mínimo?”
La conciencia abre la puerta a la perfección, a lo heroico, a lo máximo, porque la conciencia bien formada sirve como un radar que busca la verdad, por medio de la cual elegimos seguir la ley del Señor.
Como dije, necesitamos mucho difundir la palabra sobre la conciencia, y las lecturas del domingo pasado realmente nos ayudan con un detalle sobre cómo hacer eso.
Si vamos a difundir la buena palabra sobre la conciencia, eso significa que vamos a tener que corregir a otros, especialmente a nuestros hermanos y hermanas que son católicos. Sabemos que eso no es fácil.
Lo que es fácil, cuando buscamos informar las conciencias de otros, es que parezca como si estuviéramos juzgando a la persona misma. Tenemos que evitar ese juicio del individuo, pero no tenemos que dudar en ayudarlos, al ofrecerles la verdad sobre sus acciones.