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‘Waiting Well’: Aly Aleigha collaborates with Fr. Mike Schmitz

By |2025-11-17T13:37:51-06:00November 21, 2025|Local News|

Rice Lake native Aly Aleigha Schissel, now Aerts since her 2024 marriage to Peter Aerts, has partnered with Fr. Mike Schmitz, her former college chaplain at University of Minnesota Duluth and a popular Ascension Press figure, to produce an Advent song.

Pope to bishops: Be prophets of peace, harmony in your dioceses

By |2025-11-20T09:30:51-06:00November 20, 2025|World News|

Following the example of St. Francis of Assisi, bishops are called to be close to the people in their dioceses and peacemakers in a world marked by division and tension, Pope Leo XIV told the bishops of Italy.

Help everyone access the Bible, including online, pope urges

By |2025-11-17T09:45:54-06:00November 17, 2025|World News|

At a time when young people spend so much time in "digital environments," members of the Catholic Biblical Federation need to ask how they are fulfilling the Second Vatican Council's mandate to give everyone access to the Bible, Pope Leo XIV said.

Businesses must pursue workers’ good along with profit, pope says

By |2025-11-14T09:08:24-06:00November 14, 2025|World News|

Although almost 135 years have passed since Pope Leo XIII wrote his encyclical on the economy and labor, Pope Leo XIV -- who chose his name to honor that predecessor -- said, "The dignity of workers continues, all too often, to be violated."

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