Nationally recognized youth speaker Dr. Brooks Gibbs gave a series of presentations at St. Joseph Catholic School in Rice Lake May 6-7.

Prayer leads to opportunity. That sums up the experience of Barbara Eretto, director of religious education at Rhinelander’s Nativity Parish

In this year of St. Joseph, as declared by Pope Francis, Fr. Showri Jojappa Pasala, parochial administrator, blesses a new St. Joseph statue at St. Rita Church, Presque Isle.

Ashland’s Education Hero of the Month winner for the month of April was Our Lady of the Lake School teacher Deb Cline.

Sr. Felissa Zander learned about Kateri Tekakwitha when she was in grade school at St. Francis Xavier School in her hometown of Cross Plains. She couldn’t imagine then where she finds herself now and how her path would cross with the Native saint.

In 1988, a grotto was built next to the front door of the St. Patrick Catholic Parish in Phillips in honor of the parish’s 100th anniversary.