Diocese self-organizing March for Life trip
Students from the Diocese of Superior have participated in the Washington, D.C., March for Life every January for a number of years, traveling with a group from the Archdiocese of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Students from the Diocese of Superior have participated in the Washington, D.C., March for Life every January for a number of years, traveling with a group from the Archdiocese of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
The consequences of human sexuality’s misuse have always had far-reaching effects, particularly on recent public display through the sex abuse crisis in the Church, the burgeoning #metoo movement and the Supreme Court nomination.
The following was conducted as a question- and-answer phone interview with Fr. Rich Rhinehart, newest priest for the Diocese of Superior, ordained in June 2018.
When Bishop James P. Powers reorganized the Diocese of Superior’s Office of Vocations two years ago, it resulted in two primary initiatives – the inclusion of a vocations team to assist and work with the vocations director, and a specific vocations-focused curriculum for schools and religious education programs to teach from.
Sr. Felissa Zander, principal of St. Francis Solanus Catholic School, Reserve, and Fr. Samuel Schneider, associate pastor of St. Joseph, Rice Lake, and its cluster parishes, stop to chat during lunch at the 2018 Fall Conference
The vocational journey continues for a Clear Lake woman and a Phillips man, both of whom will be taking final vows in their respective orders in the future.
When Servite Sr. Dominica Effertz was invited to visit India by the family of Fr. Madanu Bala Showry, she thought it would never happen. Effertz is a retired teacher of St. Francis de Sales School in Spooner but continues to live and serve the parish communities in Spooner, Sarona and Shell Lake.
A wife, mother and farmer, Rose Haase was nominated last spring for the Superior Diocesan Council of Catholic Women’s 2018 Pax Christi Award.
The South Central Deanery of the Council of Catholic Women held their Fall Open Gathering at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Park Falls Oct. 13.
The Benedictine Sisters of Annunciation Monastery, Bismarck, North Dakota, welcomed Marena Hoogland, of Catawba, into the novitiate Oct. 14.