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On a campus of tens of thousands in the heart of the Diocese of Madison, more and more college students are asking questions about faith – and finding their way to the Catholic Church. Beginning Wednesday, July 29, Bishop Donald J. Hying takes up that story in a new two-part series on "Things Visible and Invisible," in conversation with Fr. David Carrano, pastor of the St. Paul University Catholic Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Over three conversations, Bishop Hying sits down with Tristan Borland, the diocese's associate director of marriage and family ministry, and a former Evangelical pastor, to trace Borland's long road to the Catholic Church.

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.