Mary Hebda has been working with the Couple to Couple League, promoting Natural Family Planning methods and educating couples about related topics, for more than 30 years.

How does someone working in faith formation ministry in the expansive Diocese of Superior stay connected with their colleagues and peers? In large part, through the SUperior Mutual Ministry Team, an organization for parish catechetical leaders.

Deacon Joe Stefancin has always had a place in the Church — he’s worked in parishes and has been a permanent deacon for the past 22 years. Now, he’s on track to ordination to the priesthood (set for June 2020), and he’s one of three seminarians from the Diocese of Superior who study at St. Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee.

In and around the Diocese of Superior, retreat centers and monasteries offer opportunities for rest as well as artistic, spiritual, emotional and intellectual growth.

The Barron Area Catholic Parish Cluster held its annual Love Your Neighbor Food Drive Challenge.

Betty Swiston, the principal of Our Lady of the Lake School in Ashland, is the 2017 recipient of the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Award.

Catholic Schools Week was a first for Keely Sanderson, the new pre-Kindergarten teacher at Our Lady of Sorrows, Ladysmith.

“Before you can discern which particular path the Lord is calling you to, [you have] to encounter His love,” said Sr. M. Consolata, FSGM, director of the Mater Redemptoris House of Formation in La Crosse.

Each year, the Holy Cross Sisters award FAME (Formation and Ministry Enablement) Grants as part of Catholic Schools Week.