Last year marked the first time the Diocese of Superior participated in “Safe Haven Sunday,” an annual effort encouraging priests and parishes to address pornography’s societal harms.

In the parish hall at St. Peter, Cameron, on the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 18, Bishop James P. Powers and members of his Diocesan Planning Committee rolled out the new Maintenance to Mission Pastoral Plan before a crowd of deacons and priests from across the diocese.

Three students from Medford won first place in the Superior Diocese’s “True Meaning of Christmas” poster contest.

It was anything but an ordinary weekend for three Superior Diocese musicians. Instead of singing for Masses at their home parishes, Holly Spiegelhoff, Mary Bloch and Lori Berryman traveled to New York where they were part of a 175-voice choir at Carnegie Hall.

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