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Marriage Matters - October 5, 2017
An Unhappy Spouse is an Unhealthy Spouse
When I was first out of college, I worked as a social worker in an adoption agency. My work was called “supervision,”...
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5.1KDiaconate - October 4, 2017What is a Deacon’s role at Mass?
Since Pope Paul VI approved the restoration of the permanent diaconate in the United States in 1968, we are much more likely...
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Fencing with bigots
…being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what...
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Marriage Matters - October 3, 2017
Women Speak For Themselves
Women are increasingly realizing that abortion, contraception, the “hook-up culture,” and modern feminism are bad for them. Women are increasingly at a...
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Uncategorized - September 28, 2017
The transmigration of theological nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke...
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From the Bishop - September 27, 2017
THE MINISTRY OF THE PRIESTHOOD TODAY
Much has been written about the “gift and mystery” of the priesthood. Gift and mystery: those are the words that Pope St....
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September 26, 2017 – Officials
The Reverend Alan P. Wierzba, Director of the Office for Vocations and Parochial Administrator of St. Peter Parish in Middle Ridge and...
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5.8KMinistry -Celebrating Rural Life Day
Recognizing farms from the Wausau Deanery The 37th annual Diocesan Rural Life Day celebration was hosted September 14 on the farm of...
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33.4KFeatured - September 26, 2017Thousands visited La Crosse to venerate the relics of St. Padre Pio
On September 20, 2017, the Diocese of La Crosse had the great honor of being one of the 12 locations in the...
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4.2KVocation - September 25, 2017Seminary is like dating
Going to seminary does not automatically mean becoming a priest A typical conversation I might have with a young man as he...
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Uncategorized - September 20, 2017
A memoir I never expected to write
When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning, was published in 2010, I thought I...
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4.3KFeatured - September 19, 2017You are a priest forever!
An account of the last chapter in a priest’s life As a priest, we promise obedience and fidelity to the bishop and...
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Marriage Matters - September 14, 2017
He said: I want to talk with the priest about strengthening our marriage.
She said: Why would we talk to a priest; he’s never been married? How would he know how to help a marriage?...
