Local News
Earth Day cleanup
Diocese of Superior staff members worked to clean up the Chancery neighborhood on April 24.
St. Joseph School Students Pray for the Election of a New Pope
As the global church mourned the death of Pope Francis, students at St. Joseph Catholic School turned to prayer and faith-filled action during this historic moment for the church.
Welcome to the church
On Holy Saturday, April 19, Fr. Ron Serrao welcomed new members to the five-parish Northern Lakes Catholic Communities.
Bishop Powers celebrates Memorial Mass for Pope Francis
Diocese of Superior Bishop James P. Powers celebrated a Memorial Mass for Pope Francis the afternoon of Thursday, May 1, at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Superior.
Swimming to victory
Eight swimmers from St. Patrick Catholic School in Hudson competed in the CAA finals in April at the University of Minnesota.
Students train in discipleship
The Diocese of Superior held the Spring High School Discipleship weekend April 4-6 at Crescent Lake Bible Camp in Rhinelander.
World News
Future pope set up trafficking commission for vulnerable in Chiclayo
Before he was Pope Leo XIV, then-Bishop Robert F. Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, created a commission to help women escape forced prostitution, said a trafficking survivor who worked with him.
God’s love is generous, not calculating, pope says at first audience
The Gospel parable of the "wasteful sower" who casts seeds on fertile soil as well as on a rocky path "is an image of the way God loves us," Pope Leo XIV told visitors and pilgrims at his first weekly general audience.
Columns
A heartfelt thanks in Ordinary Time
In every community of faith – as in any other society or family – there are always those who take on roles of enormous yet underappreciated significance.
‘Heal the wounds’: A tribute to Pope Francis
I was reading David Brooks’ “The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life,” when Pope Francis died. This paragraph, pulled from Brooks’ conclusion, struck me as almost the definition of the pope’s ministry to the Western world:
Church offers world an ‘alliance of generations’
It has not been surprising to see how much coverage secular news and social media have given to the passing of Pope Francis and the transition to a papal conclave.
‘The Chosen’ and the relaxed face of God
I am sure many of you are familiar with the television series about the life of Jesus called “The Chosen.”
Message from Bishop James P. Powers on the Death of Pope Francis
During this Jubilee of Hope and joyful celebration of the Risen Christ during this Octave of Easter we are saddened by the death of our Pope Francis.
He is not here, for he is risen, just as he said
The 2025 Easter message from Bishop James P. Powers
