“The Church can’t tell ME how to use my body.” Ever hear that?
I can’t even count the number of women who have remarked how lucky I am to be a stay-at-home mother. Another thing I can’t count is the number of women who say they wish they could afford to have more children.
MADISON — The new strategic plan for Catholic schools in the diocese has been completed after over 18 months of work and the involvement of hundreds of people from throughout the diocese. The plan, entitled Catholic Schools: Our Faith, Our Future, details specific strategies for meeting the critical challenges faced by our schools.
MADISON — Their vocational stories are different, but they are both arriving at the same place: being ordained as deacons and next year — God willing — priests for the Diocese of Madison.
To the editor:
We are lucky and I am thankful to get the chance to read the good news. The Catholic Herald paper calls me back a second and third time to make sure something wasn’t missed.
MADISON — Sandra Hull, Patch Grove, diocesan president, has issued the call to the 56th annual convention of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (MDCCW) to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, June 15 to 16, at the Bishop O’Connor Center here.
The Wisconsin Attorney General’s office confirmed last week that the Madison Surgery Center (MSC) will not be providing late-term abortions. Thank God! For that reason, we are happy to announce that the boycott of the Madison Surgery Center has ended.
The University of Wisconsin, however, continues to insist it is committed to providing late-term abortions in the Madison area. There is no chosen location as yet to replace the Madison Surgery Center, and the UW is cloaking their search in secrecy.
The Office of Planning has its strategic mission focused on parish pastoral planning, that is, helping parish leadership, be it pastors, councils, or staff, fulfill their mission of building “a familial and welcoming home” (Christifideles Laici, 26) for each parish community.
No political leader can fulfill every promise, right every wrong, or solve every problem. Nor can a body like the Wisconsin Legislature achieve perfection over the course of its 16 or so months of legislative activity.
So it is no surprise that the 2009 to 2010 legislative session that ended on April 22 did so with a mixed record of accomplishments and disappointments.
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Espero que cada uno de ustedes haya tenido una bendita Fiesta de la Ascensión el fin de semana pasado, y con ustedes ¡espero con ansias la Fiesta de Pentecostés! Resalté la semana pasada que nosotros, como Iglesia, hemos dirigido nuestras mentes y corazones hacia Pentecostés y, ciertamente, con la Ascensión del Señor, estamos más alertas en nuestra anticipación de la venida del Espíritu Santo.
MADISON — As he approaches his 30th year as a bishop (he was ordained a bishop on August 12, 1980, in St. Paul, Minn.), Bishop William H. Bullock, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Madison, remains active, especially in teaching and preaching.
