Love in the time of COVID-19
In 1985, Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published a novel entitled, Love in the Time of Cholera. It tells a colorful story of how life can still be generative, despite an epidemic.
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The question posed by COVID-19
On Ash Wednesday, I attended the St. Francis de Sales School Mass in Spooner. Our pastor, Fr. Phil Juza, asked the students to answer a question – if Advent is a time of preparation for Christmas, what is Lent a time of preparation for?
A message from Bishop James P. Powers
A message from Bishop James P. Powers regarding stewardship and online giving.
Stay home; we are all in this together
As the fight against the invisible threat of COVID-19 rages around us, here we are: inconvenienced, restricted and, for some of us, alone. And the best thing we can do for ourselves, our loved ones and our neighbors is to stay put.
A letter from Bishop James P. Powers regarding the COVID-19 virus
A letter from Bishop James P. Powers with an update on the COVID-19 situation in the Diocese of Superior.
The coronavirus and sitting quietly in a room alone
Blaise Pascal said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
A letter about COVID-19
A letter from Bishop James P. Powers regarding the COVID-19 and our local church.
Our congenital complexity
The renowned spiritual writer Ruth Burrows begins her autobiography with these words: “I was born into this world with a tortured sensitivity. For long I have puzzled over the causes of my psychological anguish.” Unfortunately, to our loss, too many spiritual biographies don’t begin like this, that is, by recognizing right at the start the …
Catholic press shows God at work in world
Ah, an election year. A marvelous time to pack up, set sail and drop anchor near some South Sea island, perhaps. Take a long vacation. Until, say, mid-November.
A prayer at the tomb of St. Paul
I write these words on the airplane taking me home from my first visit as a bishop ad limina apostolorum (to the threshold of the apostles).