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Marinette school concludes Catholic Schools Week with team events
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 9:24 am MARINETTE — Students at St. Thomas Aquinas Academy (high school and middle school) concluded Catholic Schools Week with an all-school Mass at St. Joseph Church. Students from both...
Catholics invited to take online survey
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 9:20 am ALLOUEZ — Catholics in the Diocese of Green Bay are invited to participate in an online survey created by the Vatican in anticipation of the General Assembly of the Synod of...
Fr. Vandenberg dies; served 34 years in Combined Locks
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 9:17 am ALLOUEZ — Fr. Robert Vandenberg, who served 34 years as pastor of St. Paul Parish, Combined Locks, died Jan. 27 at age 88.
Fr. Vandenberg, a Kimberly native, wanted to “provide...
14 Years Later, She is Devastated by Her Abortion: I Missed Out on Being a Mother
LifeNews.com - Feb 5, 2015 at 9:14 am A woman on Pro-Woman Pro-Life gives her abortion testimony:
Regretting the abortion didn’t happen right away. I spent over fourteen years thinking nothing of it really.
There...
Two Rivers youth celebrate Catholic Schools Week by collecting donations
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 9:11 am TWO RIVERS — When Stuart Gavin saw the amount of items waiting for him at St. Peter the Fisherman School, he knew he should have brought a larger vehicle.
“There sure are a lot of...
“This is the mission of the Church: to heal the wounded hearts, to open doors, to say that God is good…”
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 5, 2015 at 9:10 am Highlights of the pope’s homily today, from Vatican Radio: The Church must proclaim the Gospel “in poverty” and the people proclaiming it must have the sole aim of alleviating the...
Bishop Ricken joins local ministers for ecumenical prayer service
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 9:06 am APPLETON — An ecumenical Week of Prayer for Christian Unity service was held Jan. 28 at First Congregational United Church of Christ. The leaders of several different...
“A Church that is not poor is powerful but not evangelical”
Vatican Insider - Feb 5, 2015 at 9:02 amAlabama Asks Supreme Court For Stay of Same-Sex Marriage Injunction
The Religion Clause - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:46 am As reported by Jurist, Tuesday the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant a stay beyond the current Feb. 9 effective date of a district court order in Searcy v....
Clare Daly Introduces Bill to Legalise Abortions on Disabled Babies in Ireland
LifeNews.com - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:44 am The Pro Life Campaign has questioned the motivation behind Deputy Clare Daly’s latest abortion Bill in the Dáil and the insensitive way some members of the Oireachtas have...
A heated debate: Is killing an acceptable end to human suffering?
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:34 am Boulder, Colo., Feb 5, 2015 / 08:34 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Two worlds collided when scholars with opposite viewpoints met in Boulder, Colorado to debate the legalization of...
A Seeker Discovers Truth in the Catholic Church
CatholicMom.com - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:30 am
Once God reveals His Mother to you and puts a hunger in your heart for the Eucharist, there is nowhere to go but the Catholic Church
Hunger still drives me to seek His Heart
Only...
“The priority must be to protect against abuse, not avoid scandal”
Vatican Insider - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:11 amHis hands are for helping
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:06 am MENASHA — As a member of St. Mary Parish and parent of four children who graduated from St. Mary grade school and St. Mary Central High School, Bill Aykens knows about school...
Bishop’s Appeal: Building disciples
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:02 am This is an exciting time in our diocese. It is such a blessing to be part of a vibrant community of Catholics here in Wisconsin. As we become fully immersed in the new year, we...
Working wonders together
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:01 am Of all the remarkable things that take place in this gospel passage, the most significant may be that none of the apostles do it on their own. “Jesus summoned the Twelve,” Mark...
Temptation, two Timothys and the Los Angeles Times' take on a pastor to California lawmakers
GetReligion - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:01 am In 2001, while serving as religion editor for The Oklahoman, I wrote a Saturday column on a group of lawmakers involved in an unusual endeavor:
I hid my jewelry and locked my...
Charitable giving is up
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 8:00 am When it comes to charitable giving, Americans are tops. Every year, we step up to the plate and deliver graciously to important causes.
As the Diocese of Green Bay prepares to...
Pope to world's bishops: Get behind my sexual-abuse commission.
Commonweal - Feb 5, 2015 at 7:57 am Today the Holy See released Pope Francis's February 2 letter to the world's bishops conferences and religious communities asking for their "complete cooperation" with the sexual-...
Pope to Church leaders – 'scourge' of minor sex abuse must stop
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 5, 2015 at 7:30 am Vatican City, Feb 5, 2015 / 07:34 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis has sent a letter to religious superiors and presidents of
episcopal conferences, asking for their full...
