Ever since I was old enough to vote, I have always voted in every election. I think of it as both a right and a responsibility.
On November 6, we will have a midterm election. These happen every four years near the midpoint of a president’s four-year term of office.
Ever since I was old enough to vote, I have always voted in every election. I think of it as both a right and a responsibility.
On November 6, we will have a midterm election. These happen every four years near the midpoint of a president’s four-year term of office.
In recent issues of the Catholic Herald, we’ve had quite a bit of information about Catholic Charities Madison, including flood relief, the annual Faith in Action Awards Celebration, and The Beacon homeless day resource center.
So our readers might think they know quite a bit about Catholic Charities. Yet this weekend, we are observing Catholic Charities Sunday in the Diocese of Madison.
What else do you need to know about Catholic Charities? Quite a bit!
Most of us have seen people holding signs at intersections saying, “I’m homeless. Please help me!”
We feel sorry for them and want to give them some money. But we get the sinking feeling that the money won’t help them break out of the cycle of homelessness.
However, since The Beacon opened almost a year ago in Madison on October 16, 2017, I feel more optimistic about homeless people. And I wonder if I should carry a card with me to give those people begging for money information on The Beacon.
One of my favorite things to cover for the Catholic Herald over the years have been Masses and events sponsored by the Apostolate for Persons with Disabilities (formerly the Apostolate to the Handicapped).
Many parents and grandparents like myself are afraid of shootings happening in their children’s and grandchildren’s schools.
In fact, a recent study from Ball State University of parents’ expectations found that about 36 percent of respondents believed that their local high school was highly likely to have a gun incident in the next three years.
On this page we are publishing the Spanish version of an article on the Regional Encuentro held at the University of Notre Dame recently.
We previously published the article in English in our print edition and in English (http://www.madisoncatholicherald.org/news/around-diocese/7688-encuetro.html) and Spanish (http://www.madisoncatholicherald.org/espanol/7690-encuentro.html) on our website.
We are publishing it in Spanish prior to the National V Encuentro which begins September 20 in Grapevine, Texas. Three delegates from the Diocese of Madison will be attending the National Encuentro.
As it happens so many times in places throughout the world, the Catholic Church has come to the rescue of more than one million people taking shelter in relief camps after floods ravaged Kerala state in southwest India.
The Indian effort is the biggest rescue and relief operation the Catholic Church in Kerala has ever undertaken, reported Catholic News Service. All 32 Catholic dioceses in Kerala have joined in the relief work.
As it happens so many times in places throughout the world, the Catholic Church has come to the rescue of more than one million people taking shelter in relief camps after floods ravaged Kerala state in southwest India.
The Indian effort is the biggest rescue and relief operation the Catholic Church in Kerala has ever undertaken, reported Catholic News Service. All 32 Catholic dioceses in Kerala have joined in the relief work.
In 2004, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York published an exhaustive study called The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States 1950-2002. …
For those concerned about recent news about sexual abuse by members of the clergy and hierarchy, this report is worth reading.
