The Provincial Emails

Transparency and the church

2008-05-11T07:00:00.000-05:00

Jim Norton in the April 18, 2008 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel OK, I get it. If I want the Catholic Church in the U.S., Wisconsin and Milwaukee to exist and serve, I will have to pony up more cash. But I have a problem with that. ... When someone has squandered my money, stock purchases or donations, I have to think long and hard about giving those same institutions more of my cash. Fool me once,

The Great Uncluttering

2008-05-09T17:00:00.000-05:00

Michael Agger at Slate on The best books, articles, and Web sites for helping you organize your life.

Textbooks find second home in Uganda

2008-05-08T17:00:00.001-05:00

Amy Guckeen reported in "our" Milwaukee Catholic Herald, March 27, 2008. Anyone who's ever worked a used book sale knows used textbooks can be a problem. Fr. John Mary Ssozi, "a student at UW-Milwaukee and in residence at St. Robert Parish, Shorewood," heard of a need for textbooks for a new university library at Masaka in his native Uganda. So he started collecting them. Donated textbooks have

Common Ground mirrors Catholic social teaching

2008-05-07T18:56:00.000-05:00

Brian T. Olszewski reported in "our" Milwaukee Catholic Herald, April 17, 2008, on the founding convention of Southeastern Wisconsin Common Ground. If you go to the Common Ground web site, there are FAQ, including, What's Common Ground? It's one organization in a national network affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), the oldest and largest institution for professional

Deus ex papier-mache

2008-05-07T12:00:00.002-05:00

The 2008 West Coast Regional Call To Action Conference Keynote Workshops included Leo Keegan on Vatican II Liturgy. ...Have the liturgical principles of Vatican II revitalized your parish celebration of the Eucharist? What wisdom is yet to be gleaned from the early church and the Sacred Constitution on the Liturgy to transform ministers - lay & clergy, men & women, young & old, toward an

Serving All and Sacrificing None

2008-05-07T06:59:00.002-05:00

The Wisconsin Bishops on April 29, 2008 released a pastoral letter Serving All and Sacrificing None: Ethical Stem Cell Research. It is scientists who have demonstrated that the single cell, or zygote that results from fertilization, contains the complete genetic information necessary for the development of a unique human being. It is scientists who have shown us that human development is a

The First Novena

2008-05-06T17:31:00.002-05:00

Rocco Palma did say Was nine days 'tween Ascension And Pentecost Day. And when he says First, Its the nine days between, As described in Acts 1, Verses 12 to 14. (via Kevin Knight at New Advent)

Blogging DRE uses technology to spread Word

2008-05-06T06:59:00.002-05:00

Amy Guckeen reported in "our" Milwaukee Catholic Herald, April 3, 2008. Heidi Russell, director of Christian formation at St. Monica, Whitefish Bay, blogs at Theological Reflections, posting about once a week. It fits the common perception of blogs as a means of personal expression; while she's a DRE, she doesn't blog in that capacity. That is not inherent to the medium; one could have a "

Fond du Lac forms single Catholic education system

2008-05-05T06:59:00.000-05:00

Amy Guckeen reported in "our" Milwaukee Catholic Herald, March 20, 2008 on the merger of St. Mary's Springs High School with the Fond du Lac Area Catholic Education System [FACES]. The new body will eventually have a single governing board and administrator. FACES was formed in 1992 when the six parishes of Fond du Lac and North Fond du Lac consolidated to form a single Catholic elementary

Toward a Just and Peaceful Solution in Iraq

2008-05-04T07:45:00.002-05:00

A Policy Paper on the War and Occupation of Iraq prepared by Pax Christi USA (March 2008) details the cost in American lives and money (p. 1). When it comes to solutions, it assumes a great many things falling into place as hoped. Meanwhile, the U.S. should provide substantial financial resources and possibly play a limited operational role... (p. 3) If limiting that role is contingent on "A

Notes from a Thessalonian pilgrimage

2008-05-02T10:43:00.000-05:00

Bishop Richard J. Sklba in the Herald of Hope column in "our" Milwaukee Catholic Herald, March 13, 2008, recalls a recent visit to Thessaloniki and to Thesaurus. Sitting before the great icons of Christ Pantokrator and Mary the God Bearer (Theotokos) as I did each day, I kept thinking that the current throne of the Archbishops of Thessaloniki was in fact the "throne" of Paul himself, for the

The 'wow!' factor

2008-05-01T17:01:00.001-05:00

Mary Louise Schumacher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel architecture critic, reported May 1, 2008, on the Design Awards presented yesterday by AIA [American Institute of Architects] Wisconsin. The first post-Whitney Gould cube-of-the-month is Merit Award winnner Cantilever House (in slideshows), Fox Point, by La Dallman Architects of Milwaukee.

Pilot parishes key to campaign's $16.7 million start

2008-05-01T06:59:00.000-05:00

Brian T. Olszewski reported in "our" Milwaukee Catholic Herald, March 6, 2008, on the first stage of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's $105 million Faith In Our Future capital campaign. As of Feb. 25, according to the archdiocesan development office, revenue raised in 12 pilot parishes and through major gifts totaled $16,770,229. Donations have come from 4,937 people. Collectively, the pilots

The Mass Series

2008-04-30T06:59:00.000-05:00

This seven part series by Father Tom Margevicius has also been published in "our" Milwaukee Catholic Herald. Part I: What we believe is what we pray and live Part II: Entrance rites - Getting ready to meet God Part III: Christ is present in the word proclaimed Part IV: Presentation of the gifts: Bread, wine and ourselves Part V: The miracle of the Eucharist: 'My flesh is true food' Part VI:

The Gift of Scripture

2008-04-29T17:01:00.000-05:00

Joseph S. ["Spirit of Vatican II"] O'Leary posts the text of his talk given at Durham University, April 20. 2008 which begins, In 2005 the Bishops of England and Wales produced a teaching document titled The Gift of Scripture (CTS). If you search for it on the internet you will not find the text but instead you will find it denounced on countless Catholic blogs... Why don't we find the text

2007 a time of change for Milwaukee Archdiocese

2008-04-29T06:59:00.000-05:00

Continuing a Spring cleaning of back issues, I came across this year in review in the January 3, 2008 issue of "our" Milwaukee Catholic Herald.

Despite fewer donors, CSA tops $7.6 million goal

2008-04-28T17:23:00.001-05:00

Quite a few issues of "our" Milwaukee Catholic Herald have piled up on "my" my desk. In the December 6, 2007 issue Brian T. Olszewski reported on the results of last year's Catholic Stewardship Appeal. The Appeal's director, Robert Bohlmann, had announced it had exceeded its $7.6 million goal. "Despite the fact that we're down 2,600 donors, I'm really inspired by that and encouraged, because I

No "Day of Silence" at Marquette University High School on April 25

2008-04-28T06:59:00.007-05:00

The April 2008 newsletter of the Milwaukee chapter of Cathlics United for the Faith included this item. A FALSE report that Marquette University High School is taking part in the national “Day of Silence” (DOS) has appeared on the internet. It is simply not true, nor has MUHS ever taken part in this activity in the past. Decades ago Marquette students sometimes did affect an aversion which

Jarman stunning as Giulietta in Florentine production

2008-04-27T07:50:00.001-05:00

Elaine Schmidt in the April 27, 2008 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reviews last night's performance of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi by the Florentine Opera Company. Bellini's music, the apex of the bel canto (beautiful song) style of writing, is what gives this abbreviated telling of the story its passion and depth - that, and the fact that we know these characters before the curtain rises.

Bill Moyers plays Whiffleball with the Rev. Wright

2008-04-26T14:49:00.002-05:00

Karl at Protein Wisdom on yesterday's Bill Moyer's Journal interview of Rev. Jeremiah Wright If Moyers had any journalistic integrity he might have gone beyond a bumper-sticker understanding of Black Liberation Theology and asked about the underlying Marxist frame work of liberation theologies in general. (via Althouse) Update: Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports in the Milwaukee

Dolan reportedly up for coveted N.Y. post

2008-04-25T16:41:00.001-05:00

Tom Heinen reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on renewed speculation on who will succeed Cardinal Edward Egan as Archbishop of New York. John Allen, a widely respected American author and journalist who covers the Vatican for the National Catholic Reporter, said Thursday in a telephone interview from Rome that "the two names that I hear talked about the most, kind of around the water

A Populist Shift Confronts the U.S. Catholic Church

2008-04-24T06:59:00.000-05:00

by Fernanda Santos in The New York Times, April 20, 2008 As Pope Benedict XVI completes his visit to the United States on Sunday with a Mass at Yankee Stadium, in a borough that has been home to generations of Latinos, he does so facing something of a growing challenge to the church’s immigrant ranks. For if Latinos are feeding the population of the church, many have also turned to

"Rembert Weakland - A Journey of Faith to Air"

2008-04-23T06:59:00.000-05:00

As punctuated at the Archdiocese of Milwaukee website, a reminder for the March 29, 2002 rebroadcast of Mark Siegrist's public television documentary.

Pope Delivers Yankee Mass

2008-04-22T17:00:00.001-05:00

American Voices, at The Onion

Liturgy and Sacred Music

2008-04-22T06:59:00.001-05:00

by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, delivered at the Eighth International Church Music Congress in Rome, November 17, 1985, subsequently published in Communio: International Catholic Review (Winter 1986, pp 377-390, translated from Italian by Stephen Wentworth Arndt), Adoremus, April 2008 In what has just been described, an all too widespread opinion today holds that so-called creativity, the action