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Green Bay
 
Diocese rejects groups attempt to save building
Green Bay Press Gazette
A group hoping to save a nearly 100-year-old form Catholic chancery from demolition is resigned to defeat.on its plan to stop demolition of the property and did not receive a counter offer. The group will hold a candlelight vigil in front of the building from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Coalition president Jim Rivett said his group raised $10,000 in five days after finding out in May that the diocese planned to demolish the building. But it was not enough.
There is a Facebook group out there that has been giving updates on this one.

Architect selected for new St. Francis school
Herald Times Reporter
God was on the agenda to do one thing at Thursday's ceremony for St. Francis of Assisi's future P-8 Catholic school: to provide the sprinkling rite to bless the grounds, the Rev. Dan Felton said.

Parish officials announced in late October that an anonymous donor had pledged $12.3 million to build the new school, and that they had received 30 acres of land for the campus, currently soybean fields.

Joe Bound, director of the Department of Education for the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, said Thursday that this will be the first new Catholic school built in the Green Bay diocese in at least 20 years.
Bishop Ricken founded order that runs Mystic Monk Coffee
FrZ News Service

Commenter from this Fr Z article noted that Bishop David Ricken now of Green Bay helped found the monks of Mystic Monk Coffee

La Crosse
St. Peter's Catholic Church in Tilden celebrates 150 years - Bishop Callahan rides buggy to church.
WEAU 13 - Eau Claire - Video Warning - Biretta alert!
Just as their faithful ancestors did with the first bishop of the La Crosse Diocese more than a century ago, members of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Tilden walked this road to Mass Sunday morning, with newly installed Bishop Callahan following behind in a horse and buggy.

As the church celebrated its 150th anniversary, members created a small museum honoring its rich heritage, which began with German immigrants.

“They had such a rough ride when they came over on the ship that they made a vow to the Blessed Virgin that they would build a church here in her honor,” Secraw describes. “So we had a church even before there was a Diocese of LaCrosse.”

The diocese was founded 8 years after St. Peter’s parish.

As the bishop celebrated Mass and confirmed young people in the parish, Father William Felix says he took time to reflect on his own long history here.

“To be with these people for 22 years, I baptized the kids that are now nearly preparing for marriage,” he says with a smile. 
Superior

Bishop Christensen recently lambasted local media coverage of the priest scandals.   

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