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by bcadmin | May 19, 2022 | Acknowledgment ceremony, Diocese of Green Bay, First Nations, Franciscan sisters, Ho-Chunk, Ho-Chunk Nation, Menominee, Menominee Nation, News, Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross, U.S. & World News, Wisconsin | 0 |
In what may have been the first such ceremony held by a Catholic religious community in Wisconsin, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross hosted a land acknowledgment ceremony on the grounds of St. Francis Convent May 14.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 6, 2022 | Business, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, News, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
“It’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Diocese of Green Bay, Featured, Green Bay, News, U.S. & World News, Ukraine, Ukrainian Candle, Ukrainian flag, Wisconsin | 0 |
“It’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 22, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, Football, Franciscans, News, Religious Sisters | 0 |
On the far west side of Manitowoc, atop a hill overlooking picturesque Silver Lake, sits the historic Holy Family Convent.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, Football, Franciscans, News, NFL, Religious Sisters, Super Bowl, Wisconsin | 0 |
A core group of Franciscan sisters has been Packers fans “forever.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 5, 2022 | Afghan immigrant, Afghanistan, Catholic Charities, Diocese of Green Bay, Green Bay, News, Refugees, Sayed Wardak, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Sayed Wardak, 32, spent five years as a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. In 2016, after nearly a year of hiding from the Taliban and in fear for his life, Wardak and his wife, Sairah, immigrated to the United States.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Christmas, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, News, Television | 0 |
A Wisconsin pastor has created a 10-part series of short videos related to a special Christmas episode released in theaters by the creators of the show “The Chosen,” a wildly popular streaming series on the of Jesus and the Gospel stories.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, News, Wisconsin | 0 |
Many children grow up playing with dolls. Some might even have had a “nun doll” dressed in a religious habit to play with years ago. Denise Willems never had a nun doll, but she and her seven siblings did have a priest doll.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 19, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Catholic pilgrimages, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, News, Wisconsin | 0 |
Walking pilgrimages to religious sites have been a popular way of expressing and building one’s faith and connection to God for centuries.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 23, 2021 | De Pere, Diocese of Green Bay, Featured, Local News, National Shrine of St. Joseph, National shrines, News, St. Joseph, Wisconsin | 0 |
National shrines can be huge complexes anchored by beautiful churches or basilicas. Visitors to the National Shrine of St. Joseph in De Pere, Wisconsin, are more likely to be surprised by its simplicity, said Michael Poradek, the shrine’s director.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 4, 2021 | Artists, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, News, religious art, Statues, Wisconsin | 0 |
Bruce Nufer, a retired art teacher from Menasha, Wisconsin, who restores religious statues, completed a restoration project on a life-size statue of Jesus outside of SS. Peter and Paul Church in Institute.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, News, Wisconsin | 0 |
John Sloot, 93, a retired farmer from Winthrop, Minnesota, lives by the adage of his late brother, Vincent, a marathon runner, who preached: “When you get near the end, you have to throw everything out of the closet.”
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