Like Christ, nurse aims to heal mind, body, spirit
Rick, as I recall, also has a less serious side not reflected in the article.
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
January 8, 2009]
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
January 8, 2009]
That Puritan culture possessed a clear sense of being chosen and free, of looking down on others as evidenced in the way they treated the Native American peoples. The embrace of God's grace was positive, but the sense of superiority was not. They possessed a strong sense of Protestant individualism, different from the communal nature of God's people found in Scripture and retained in the Catholic experience.
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
January 8, 2009]
"Rome does not know what to do with Weakland."
--unnamed religious superior in Rome, quoted by Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B., Milwaukee Catholic Herald, May 9, 2002
...the [New York] Times does not quite know what to do with him.
--Terry Mattingly, Get Religion, February 23, 2009
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
December 18, 2008]
The actions of Lawrence Murphy are nauseating, criminal, and go against everything the Church stands for.
So why do I write to you about this now?
As part of the civil litigation in this case, records of this deceased priest have been delivered to the plaintiff's attorney.
history suggests all the gory details will be published. So, get ready for more sickening stories about this horror. Although it is not fresh "news," as is clear from what I wrote above, you can still expect to "read all about it!"
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
December 18, 2008]
Each first Thursday of the month, participants from a variety of religious backgrounds gather for an hour in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices at 310 E. Knapp St., to remind others of what they view as the injustices terrorizing undocumented families in Wisconsin and across the nation.
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
December 11, 2008]
The idea was that although a book was given to you for your personal use you were never to think that you actually owned it. Real ownership lay elsewhere. You were only a steward of someone else's property.[ ]
We get to have them, ad usam, but we should never nurse the illusion that we own them, that they are ours, that we can claim them by right.
[November 16, 2009 column,
Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
November 27, 2008]
Lent is therefore also a time for intellectual conversion. That is worth some further thought. There are some errors so fundamental as to have been called heresies over the centuries.
That label is no small or casual condemnation! The word can be bandied around flippantly, and sometimes is so treated by people who do not understand the true focus of the word and its serious implications.
Despite Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland's videotaped deposition that he knowingly assigned priests with a history of sexually abusing children to parishes during his time as archbishop from late 1977 until mid-2002, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee maintains that the complete picture of what occurred, in some cases more than 40 years ago, will never be known.
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
November 20, 2008]
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One of the great apostolic exhortations that came forth from the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the Synod for the Laity in 1989 is called: Christifideles Laici - the Lay Members of Christ's Faithful People. It is a strong statement written by Pope John Paul II in favor of the vocation and mission of the laity. This year, of course, marks the 20th anniversary of its publication. I believe that so much of what we are trying to do with "Vision 21" and strategic pastoral planning here in the archdiocese is basically contained in the pages of this exhortation of the late great Pope John Paul II.
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
January 22, 2009]
It is not just church-life and parish-life that are in trouble today. Declining church attendance is paralleled everywhere: Families and neighborhoods are dissipating and breaking down as people guard their privacy and individuality more and more. Civic organizations and clubs are finding it hard to function as they once did and there is simply less of a sense of community everywhere than there once was.
Then too - where would I go? To build another church? But I could not build one without the same defects, for they are my defects.
[November 9, 2008 column,
Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
November 20, 2008]
any perceptions that a Dolan selection would signal a "soft" line on hot-button questions could use a bit more context.
He's sought to keep the initiative relatively quiet, but the media-friendly prelate's preferred means of interaction with public officials is a twice-yearly seminar he leads on church teaching in public life, to which all officeholders in the Milwaukee area are invited.
In speaking of the sessions behind-the-scenes, the archbishop's relished the chance to be able to dig in as a teacher and present the Magisterium both affirmatively and without the backdrop of public controversy -- but with the added coup of avoiding the misperceptions that often come with said firestorms and the coverage thereof. What's more, the practical advantage is just as beneficial, as the programs allow relationships to be built where, when difficulties do arise, tensions can be handled personally and constructively, away from the pulpit and press releases.
It might mean that this is the first step in a process whereby these "Catholics" might be once more in union with the church if they accept the teaching of the council.
Labels: Parishable
St. John Bosco was once teaching a class when one of the boys asked, "Don Bosco, what would you do if you found out that the world was going to end in an hour?"
The saint replied, "I'd keep teaching this class." Not a bad answer at all. The most effective way we can prepare for the last judgment is simply by meeting the duties that daily life brings.
And yes, the question has occurred to me that, if I have but a little time to live, should I be spending it writing this column. I have heard it attributed to figures as various as Brother Lawrence and Martin Luther—when asked what they would do if they knew they were going to die tomorrow, they answered that they would plant a tree and say their prayers. (Luther is supposed to have added that he would quaff his favored beer.) Maybe I have, at least metaphorically, planted a few trees, and certainly I am saying my prayers.
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
November 20, 2008]
set to three songs in this seven-minute video:
1) “Lincoln and Liberty,” an 1860 campaign song;
2) “Dixie,” some say Lincoln’s favorite tune; and
3) “Ashokan Farewell,” the moving title theme of Ken Burns’ 1990 documentary film and miniseries The Civil War.
The Detroit News reports that GM and Chrysler are working furiously behind the scenes to extend the March 31 government deadline re: meeting the conditions of their $13.4b bridge loan to nowhere bailout buffet. Surprise! The American automakers’ inability to take responsibility for their actions may be true-to-form, but that doesn’t make it any less nauseating. Nor does the News’ coverage of the company’s weaseling, which put the “sick” in “sycophancy.”
Labels: Snark launch
The home of the weekly columns of Bishop Richard Williamson, of the Society of St Pius X
Obama may be pro-choice, but so is God.
Yes, abortion is the killing of an innocent human life. So is war and violent killing on the streets. I have often seen many starving babies in hospitals in Honduras and witnessed their pain. In these cases, abortion might have been the lesser of two evils, and even the most merciful alternative.
you know that our publication adheres to and enthusiastically promotes that teaching. Through columns and stories, we re-enforce it. That's our job; more importantly, that's our mission.
[Milwaukee Catholic Herald,
November 27, 2008,
December 4, 2008,
and December 11, 2008]
There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. This much we know.
As an example, he detailed the fallout from an editorial he wrote in The Catholic Herald in 2006 that encouraged Catholics to consider voting against Wisconsin’s Defense of Marriage Act, concluding that a no vote was “the best way to respect all of our Catholic beliefs and values.”
We get to read Poe in school not because school defangs Poe; school defangs us so that we can't sink our fangs into his stories the way he wanted us to. Poe is torn to shreds by dopey assignments forcing us to compare and contrast the cat in "The Black Cat" to the bird in "The Raven," term papers about Roderick Usher's inability to tell fantasy from reality, and endless other demands that we take the ineffable in Poe's stories and try to make them effable.
Labels: Hapless benchmark
The Wisconsin Catholic Conference (WCC) has endorsed Senate Bill 1, legislation that would increase Wisconsin's minimum wage.