Fr. John Long celebrates 30 years
The following is reprinted with permission from the Oct. 27 bulletin for St. Bridget’s in Wilson, St. John the Baptist in Glenwood City and St. John’s in Clear Lake.
The following is reprinted with permission from the Oct. 27 bulletin for St. Bridget’s in Wilson, St. John the Baptist in Glenwood City and St. John’s in Clear Lake.
At the start of Mass for the Diocese of Superior’s 57th annual Fall Conference, on the clear, cool morning of Oct. 25, Bishop James P. Powers welcomed all present at St. Joseph’s Church in Rice Lake.
During a recent speech in Texas, I mentioned that “drag queen story hours” are being sponsored by local public libraries across the country.
St. Patrick, Hudson, has a sister parish in Guatemala; for the last two years, Mark Anderson from Mickelson’s Drug has donated all the medicine that the medical team uses to help those in need in the village of San Jose.
Sarah Zeien, principal and alumna of Spooner’s St. Francis de Sales School, offered a short presentation to honor Sr. Dominica Effertz, OSM, at the end of Mass Nov. 3.
Marena Hoogland, formerly of the Diocese of Superior, became a Benedictine sister of Annunciation Monastery, Bismarck, North Dakota, Oct. 19.
Volunteers at the Nativity of Our Lord Thrift Shop, Rhinelander, were all decked out for Halloween.
News briefs featured in the Nov. 14, 2019 issue of the Catholic Herald.
Thomas Ericksen, a former priest of the Diocese of Superior, was sentenced Sept. 26 in Sawyer County Circuit Court to the maximum 30 years in prison for molesting boys while serving in diocesan parishes decades ago.
On Sunday, Oct. 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., New Dawn Pregnancy Resource Center, Woodruff, held an open house to showcase their new ultrasound machine.