As the Vocation Director, my particular focus is men discerning whether or not priesthood is the vocation where God is calling them...
When I was a boy growing up in Marinette, it seemed that everyone went to church on Sunday. Not everyone was Catholic...
Most Catholics at some point or another are asked to memorize the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude,...
When I was in the fourth grade at St. Anne’s School in Wausau, our teacher asked us to make some art showing...
When I was studying philosophy at St. Francis Major Seminary in Milwaukee, Father John Peifer defined wisdom as “knowing things in their...
One of the many lessons I learned vicariously through teaching high school students was the powerful spiritual influence exercised by our grandparents....
This year, as our diocese celebrates its 150th anniversary, it is only appropriate to stop and thank our predecessors. Our diocese is...
Now that much of the excitement and all the “rah-rah” will calm down about the 150th anniversary of our diocese, I wonder,...
“Let the children come to me, do not hinder them.” (Mk 10:14) With her impish grin and loving eyes, she greets all...
“They’ll never make it.” Those words were spoken by a neighboring farmer about my grandparents in the 1950s. My grandparents had just...