The American Birkebeiner, North America’s largest cross-country ski race, brings more than 40,000 people to Northwest Wisconsin for the annual event.

From left, Larry Emmerich, Holy Rosary Catholic School Principal Theresa Easterly, 3-year-old Kindergarten teacher Kristiana Fogo, Joe Konop and Holy Rosary students take a photo at the Kick-Off to Catholic Schools Week pancake breakfast at Holy Rosary School in Medford.

A very premature baby from a Somerset Catholic family who was given no chance of survival was born a year-and-a-half ago when his mother was just over 21 weeks pregnant.

On March 15, the Diocese of Superior is offering a workshop on youths and mental health at St. Joseph, Rice Lake.

Sr. Roselyn Heil, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration, recently joined the Ashland area Catholic churches to fill the role vacated by the 2021 departure of Sr. Phyllis Wilhelm, OSF.

In the winter of 1994, I attended my first Minnesota March for Life in Saint Paul with my new youth ministry group on a bus from St. Michael, Minnesota. That day, I made our Lord a promise that I would get to the march every year until they allowed high school students the right to attend the National March in Washington, D.C. 

My name is Emily Smith, and I am a St. Joseph Catholic School, Rice Lake, graduate of 2016. I am currently attending the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in St. Joseph, Minnesota.

During his homily for the Jan. 22 Gathering for Life at St. Joseph, Rice Lake, Bishop James P. Powers acknowledged the more solemn occasion for the gathering, in contrast to more joyful celebrations of Mass around the diocese.

“The best sermons are lived, not preached.” Ruby Szitta has been following that comfortable adage for more than nine decades.