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The Reverend Father William “Bill” John Hower entered into eternity on Friday, July 3, 2026, at the age of 87 at Aurora Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI.

Very Rev. Tait Schroeder, Vicar General, publishes the decree uniting the parishes of St. Philomena in Belmont, Our Lady of Fatima in Darlington, St. Joseph in Gratiot, St. Matthew in Shullsburg, and St. John the Apostle in South Wayne to become St. Isidore the Farmer Parish, as issued by Most Rev. Donald Hying, Bishop of Madison, and announces the following clergy appointments, all effective Saturday, June 27, 2026, and announced the same day.

Very Rev. Tait Schroeder, Vicar General, publishes the decree uniting the parishes of St. Francis of Assisi in Jefferson, St. Joseph in Fort Atkinson, St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Milton, St. Mary in Palmyra, St. Mary Help of Christians in Sullivan, and St. Pius X in Cambridge to become St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish, as issued by Most Rev. Donald Hying, Bishop of Madison, and announces the following clergy appointments, all effective Saturday, June 20, 2026, and announced the same day.

Very Rev. Tait Schroeder, Vicar General, announces the following clergy appointments, as issued by Most Rev. Donald Hying, Bishop of Madison, on June 5, 2026, and effective immediately.

The Diocese of Madison today announced the launch of Things Visible and Invisible, a new podcast hosted by Bishop Donald J. Hying. The series explores life, faith, current events, culture, and history, all in relation to Jesus Christ and his Church.

Margaret Alacoque was born in 1647 in France, the only daughter of Claude and Philiberte Lamyn Alacoque. Margaret always showed an intense love for the Blessed Sacrament and preferred silence over typical childhood play. She began practicing severe corporal mortification after her First Communion at age nine.

On December 27, 1673, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was praying alone in the chapel of her convent when the Sacred Heart appeared to her. Jesus’ body was filled with light, and His Heart was on fire, bleeding and crowned with thorns. Our Lord said to her, “Behold this Heart which has loved men so much! My Divine Heart is so inflamed with love for mankind . . . that it can no longer contain within itself the flames of its burning charity and must spread them abroad by your means.”

Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison is inviting everyone to a special celebration on Friday, June 12. The bishop will consecrate the Diocese of Madison to the Sacred Heart of Jesus during a 7 p.m. Mass at Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Church, part of Epiphany of the Lord Parish, 221 Columbus St., Sun Prairie.

For Elowen, the “New World” had a sharp, metallic taste. It was the taste of the soot in the Chicago kitchens where she had scrubbed floors, and the bitter copper of the coins she saved to buy her passage to the Wisconsin woods.

The Sunday sky over Philadelphia in October 1774 was a flat, discouraging gray. Inside the taverns, the air was thick with tobacco and the heavy talk of treason. The First Continental Congress was deadlocked, and for men like John Adams, the pressure of a looming revolution was a physical weight.

The first sound was not a voice, but a vibration. A bronze bell, pitted by salt air, struck a single, clear note that rippled across the coastline of present-day Georgia. For a moment, the ancient choir of frogs and cicadas fell silent, as if the wilderness itself were holding its breath.

Holy Cross Parish invites all in the Diocese of Madison to a multimedia exhibit that will be visiting St. Bernard Church in Middleton from May 26 through June 2!

The Diocese of Madison's four transitional deacons – Casey Cooney, Barry Meinholz, Luis Reyes, and Mark Wagner – will be ordained to the priesthood on Friday, May 22 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Maria Goretti Church, 5313 Flad Ave., Madison.

We are happy to announce the ordination of our seminarian Michael Hess to the transitional diaconate! His ordination will be Friday, May 15 at 5:00 pm at St. Cecilia Church in Wisconsin Dells (part of the St. John Paul II Pastorate). The public are warmly invited to attend!