During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke...
Much has been written about the “gift and mystery” of the priesthood. Gift and mystery: those are the words that Pope St....
The Reverend Alan P. Wierzba, Director of the Office for Vocations and Parochial Administrator of St. Peter Parish in Middle Ridge and...
This article was posted on: September 27, 2017
Recognizing farms from the Wausau Deanery The 37th annual Diocesan Rural Life Day celebration was hosted September 14 on the farm of...
This article was posted on: September 26, 2017
On September 20, 2017, the Diocese of La Crosse had the great honor of being one of the 12 locations in the...
This article was posted on: September 25, 2017
Going to seminary does not automatically mean becoming a priest A typical conversation I might have with a young man as he...
When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning, was published in 2010, I thought I...
This article was posted on: September 19, 2017
An account of the last chapter in a priest’s life As a priest, we promise obedience and fidelity to the bishop and...
She said: Why would we talk to a priest; he’s never been married? How would he know how to help a marriage?...
CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S....
This article was posted on: September 11, 2017
The Fischer family shares their farm and faith for Rural Life Day St. Florian Parish in Hatley For Mike and Sue Fischer...
This article was posted on: September 7, 2017
In a world where our young people don’t always know right from wrong, good from bad, or true and false, it can...
This article was posted on: September 7, 2017
Father Berns returns to his family farm whenever he gets the opportunity. He enjoys spending time with his parishioners at parish events,...