At this time last semester, for a course on the tragedies, I posted my first Shakespeare paper -- a commentary on how important the structure and literary devices contained therein were to the op...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2008/01/shakespeare-master-craftsman.html
On his blog "What Does the Prayer Really Say?"Father Zuhlsdorf had an enlightening post today where he provided a few elegies from the classical poet Ovid. While I knew there was a socially cons...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2008/01/ovid-on-abortion.html
Today's VIS feed included the article posted below about hte 25th anniversary of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. I don't think Canon Law is something everyday Catholics think about very often, unless...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2008/01/25-years-of-1983-code.html
I've taken this information from an Italian-language announcement posted at Agenda Italiana : ROME (The Catholic Times) – The “Vintar” Center of Studies for Culture and Communication in Ro...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2008/01/vintar-center-literary-contest.html
Together with Father Sam Martin of La Crosse, I'm a guest on Relevant Radio's Connecting with the Bishop program this weekend to talk about Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical, "Spe Salvi." Although t...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-about-spe-salvi.html
A member of our young Catholic group here in La Crosse embarked on an extraordinary journey a few months ago to work with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta for a year. I wasn't aware of her...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2008/01/inside-look-at-india.html
Two of my very good friends, who are also seminarians at St. Paul Seminary in the Twin Cities, are currently on pilgrimage in the Holy City. Both Jon Sorensen and Deacon Gary Kasel have been post...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2008/01/seminarians-on-pilgrimage.html
From Rocco :
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2008/01/go-out-to-all-world.html
From today's Catholic Times: Bishops Listecki, Morlino oppose emergency contraception bill By Franz Klein Staff Writer LA CROSSE, Wis. (Catholic Times) – Bishops Jerome E. Listecki of La Cros...
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Twin brothers and priests of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., my good friends Fathers Ben and Joel Sember also blog at Holy Priesthood . While Father Ben Sember is still in Rome finishing his Cano...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/final-pre-christmas-post.html
I wanted to briefly put in a plug for Catholic Radio International -- a Catholic radio ministry with some excellent programs available for free on its Web site . CRI co-founder and president is T...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/catholic-radio-international.html
A couple people have written to me regarding a letter of mine that appeared in the Dec. 22 Minneapolis Star Tribune. I wrote to the paper regarding the controversy at my alma mater, the Universit...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-letter-from-minneapolis-star-tribune.html
A tip of the hat goes to Veritatis Splendor for this one: Just received via e-mail... had to share (slightly edited)! To My Liberal Friends: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implici...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/merry-christmas-or-something-else.html
As I reported yesterday, Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison and my own shepherd, Bishop Jerome Listecki of La Crosse, have broken ranks with the Wisconsin Catholic Conference's neutral stance in re...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-on-bishop-listeckis-stance-on.html
It's in the Dec. 20 Madison Catholic Herald , which isn't yet available online, but Bishop Robert C. Morlino has separated himself from the Wisconsin Catholic Conference's officially neutral stan...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/bishop-morlino-comes-out-against.html
The following letter was posted on the Diocese of La Crosse's Web site : D i o c e s e o f L a C r o s s e Office of the Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia December 5, 2007 To: The Pastor...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/following-letter-was-posted-on-diocese.html
Here in La Crosse, Bishop Jerome Listecki is about to issue a call to Catholics to read the pope's new encyclical, "Spe Salvi." Yesterday I was hard at work on an article about the bishop's reque...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/spe-salvi-condensed.html
The completion of this paper comes as a relief, since with it I have completed my academic semester. I can also say, definitively, that my enthusiasm of Joycean studies also ends with the passing...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/joyce-and-apostasy-ecclesiastical.html
In the photo above, Matachines religious dancers perform Dec. 9 in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard's Parish, Abbotsford, Wis. Many Wisconsinites haven't yet come to terms with the ...
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More and more Anglicans and Episcopalians are joining the Catholic Church due to their churches' increasingly liberal doctrine. While several American Episcopal bishops have become Catholic recen...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/strange-words-from-cardinal-kasper.html
My fiancee Rosemary Korish and I were/are guests on La Crosse Bishop Jerome E. Listecki's "Connecting with the Bishop" program this weekend to talk about our October pilgrimage to Rome. Although ...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/look-back-at-rome.html
I find myself blogging quite a bit lately on my alma mater, the University of St. Thomas . I recently posted my reflections on their choice of a controversial common text. A month ago, I also not...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-controversy-at-st-thomas.html
As far as I know, the Diocese of La Crosse is the first Catholic diocese to officially condemn the Golden Compass. Now posted on the Diocese's website is a letter from Bishop Jerome E. Listecki,...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/12/diocese-of-la-crosse-blasts-golden.html
Our Holy Father today published his second encyclical, on hope, titled "Spe Salvi." The fulltext from Zenit can be read here . I have just finished skimming the text, and I won't have time to ta...
Hats off to Chris Ruff, head of the La Crosse Diocese's Office for Ministries and Social Concerns: The good news keeps on coming…. “Bella” opens in La Crosse tomorrow, November 30!!! Vall...
http://thecatholicbeat.blogspot.com/2007/11/bella-finally-comes-to-la-crosse.html