Cathedral Parish videos–new and beautiful
Madison’s Cathedral Parish, the parish I belong to, draws parishioners from far beyond its territory, and you can get a good glimpse of why that is in these two really excellent new short films. The...
View ArticleThe Child Who Never Was
I featured one of my homeless friend Dave Peters’ poems at Christmas time. He gave me another winning poem today and agreed I could share it with you together with a picture of him today at Vinnie’s...
View ArticleMonastic gifts, for the Camp Gray Benefit Dinner
You can bid on this Monastic Gift Basket if you go to the Camp Gray Benefit Dinner February 23rd at St Francis Xavier Parish in Cross Plains. I think it’s going to be a silent auction item. Apparently,...
View ArticleBishop Swain speaks out after Catholic insurance co. adds contraceptive coverage
Bishop Swain, when he was still Monsignor Swain, was pastor of Madison’s Holy Redeemer Church at the time he was appointed bishop of Sioux Falls. That was only a short while after I returned to the...
View ArticlePrecious and Loveable
Some months back I saw a video (above) that showed one African-American woman’s sad and astonishing internalization of racism and specifically of the Planned Parenthood style of eugenics and of...
View ArticleThe malice of the psychologists
I don’t know why but every time I walked by these daffodils outside St Patrick Church they begged me to take a picture of them, and even though the picture of them is not very sharp, for some reason I...
View ArticleFather Rick Heilman 25th Ordination Anniversary
At Saint Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, Pine Bluff (west of Madison, among the farm fields). Father Rick Heilman, offertory at the high altar on the occasion of his 25th Anniversary of...
View ArticleThe next, and likely even more aggressive, wave of persecution
Bishop Morlino says: It is unclear exactly what the Supreme Court decisions will legally mean in our country. The fact remains that marriage means something, and this something is from God and cannot...
View ArticleImmaculate Heart Homeschoolers Father Mazzuchelli Field Trip
Saint Augustine’s in New Diggings is a restored pioneer church in a former lead mining boom town. It was built by Father Samuel Mazzuchelli. This was the first stop on today’s field trip for the...
View ArticleA trip to Holy Hill with my goddaughters and their brother
Brand new Christians! Dear girls Isabel and Leslie after their baptism at Holy Redeemer Church in June. I was their godmother (madrina, en espanol). I promised them that they and I and their older...
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