A diocesan “Gathering for Life” will take place Saturday, Jan. 22, at St. Joseph Church in Rice Lake from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is a public event and open to all ages.

Contest artwork featured on parish’s Christmas gift.

Gene Gebert was elected vice president of Catholic Financial Life, Medford Chapter 212, in 1964.

National speaker speaks of Advent as season of shaking and standing in faith

An inside look at Catholic Charities’ work with Afghan refugees in Wisconsin

Community is the center of Sally Christiansen’s life. It’s the focus of her efforts, a rich source of spiritual inspiration and, perhaps most importantly, in an area with significant poverty, a call to action.

“Peace and anxiety are both contagious,” declared Patrice Taft at the conclusion of the pre-Advent mindfulness retreat hosted by the CCW’s Southwest Deanery on Nov. 13 at St. Anne Catholic School in Somerset.

Religious education students pose with 294 Boxes of Joy that are ready to ship to children in need. Boxes were filled and collected from Holy Rosary, Medford; Good Shepherd, Rib Lake; and St. Mary’s, Colby, in the Diocese of La Crosse. (Submitted photo)

Looking for a Christmas gift idea? Loree Nauertz, associate director for Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship, suggests an adult retreat experience as “an excellent gift idea.”