Dentist Dr. Tom Gelhaus and his wife, Mary, are back after serving on missions near the U.S.-Mexican border.

The purpose of a rally, usually, is to fire up a crowd before a big sports game. The Knights for Dads Rally at St. Bridget Church in River Falls opened on Feb. 22 with a different “rally cry.”

Fr. Lourduraju Madanu, parochial administrator of the clustered parishes in Phillips, Prentice and Catawba, celebrated 20 years of priesthood the weekend of Feb. 15-16.

During Catholic Schools Week, the eighth-grade class at St. Joseph School, Rice Lake, set a goal to collect $5,000 and 1,000 items for the ministries at Heart Island, a local shelter.

Diocese of Superior Bishop James P. Powers, clergy from parishes across the diocese and Chancery officials gathered Tuesday, Feb. 18, at St. Peter, Cameron, for the introduction of the new Maintenance to Mission Pastoral Plan.

Francesca LaRosa returns to diocese in March

St. Albert the Great Catholic Church, Land O’ Lakes, is hosting its 2025 St. Albert Fish Fry dinner to benefit a local high school senior and his family.

Three retreat weekends for adults were hosted by the Diocese of Superior this winter, organized by the Office of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship’s associate director, Loree Nauertz.

A lifelong catechist and youth minister serving the parishes of St. John in Webster, Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Danbury and Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Crescent Lake, Gwendolyn Nies was honored as the 2024 Pax Christi Award winner at the Superior Diocesan Council of Catholic Women’s annual convention in Cumberland last summer.

Throughout sacred Scripture, God uses many images to describe the sort of relationship he seeks with his people: A spouse, a father, a potter, vine-grower. One of the most common is that of the Good Shepherd of Israel.