On Dec. 7, the Spartan Robotics Club from St. Joseph Catholic School, Rice Lake, excelled at the VEX-A-MANIA tournament, earning top honors among 69 competing teams.

Members of the Sew-n-Sews quilting group at St. Peter’s Church in Winter pose with their handiwork.

Churches across the United States were encouraged by the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference to ring out their bells in unison to celebrate the reopening of Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral on Saturday, Dec. 7, eve of the feast-date of the Immaculate Conception.

The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Superior’s care for the poor, the elderly, and the disabled is part of its religious mission.

The St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in Phillips is closing its doors for the last time on Saturday, Dec. 7, after 16 years of providing the community with a local donation center and retail store.

Fr. Ron Serrao, pastor of St. Albert in Land O’ Lakes, St. Kunegunda in Sugar Camp, St. Mary in Phelps, St. Peter in Eagle River and St. Theresa in Three Lakes, recently celebrated Mass at the Vilas County Jail assisted by Dcn. Bob King from Holy Family Parish, Woodruff.

On Nov. 20, State Sen. Romaine Quinn, a 2005 graduate of St. Joseph School, Rice Lake, was honored with the School Safety Award from the Wisconsin Council of Religious & Independent Schools and the Wisconsin Chapter of the Council for American Private Education.

Over the past three years, Bishop James P. Powers has led our diocese in the launch of a culture-changing initiative called “Maintenance to Mission.”