Each year, clergy and religious from the Diocese of Superior gather for a Jubilee Mass celebrated by Bishop James P. Powers.

Tom Corcoran and his pastor, Fr. Michael White, were seeking out new ideas to address the “religious consumerism” they were experiencing in their ministry at Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland.

Christians recognize life's great paradox that so much evil and temptation exist in the world, but that God is always present, too, ready to help and give people the strength to persevere, Pope Francis said.

Two dozen people involved in parish lay ministry took part in a retreat on March 30 at the St. Anthony of Padua Parish Center in Tony. The retreat’s “Interior Freedom” theme was based on a book of the same name, written by a French priest, Fr. Jacques Phillippe.

Fr. Dean Buttrick, liaison for the Charismatic Renewal in the Diocese of Superior, opened an informational session on starting a prayer group the way he suggests a prayer group should start – with praise and worship in song.

Headlines about Guatemala have recently focused on those fleeing their country; in March, two parishes of the Diocese of Superior sent mission groups to serve basic housing and medical needs in two rural communities.

With God’s grace, Judy Hehr has turned her life around. Once bankrupt, homeless and addicted to drugs, Hehr has become an author, millionaire, wife, mother, seminary graduate and motivational speaker.