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MacIver: University of Wisconsin Issues Voting ID Card To Non-Citizen

The University of Wisconsin Madison is making a big GOTV push this year. In addition to hosting three early voting sites, they’re putting extra resources into providing students with the documentation they need to register and vote – all students.

The two key documents are proof of residence and a photo ID. The university is making it as easy as possible to get these documents.

All students can print off a “Voter Eligibility Verification Letter” simply by going to their online university account. The process is automatic and instant.

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Atheists debate Catholics on charity, human rights in annual debate

University of Wisconsin Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics and Badger Catholic debated the purpose of wealth and where rights are derived from through the differing prisms of Christianity and secularism Wednesday night in their annual debate.

Ben Adams and Melissa Lyman represented AHA and Geoffrey Ludvik and Tom Dobbins represented BC. Wisconsin Union Directorate Society and Politics moderated the debate.

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Dobbins, however, argued that people’s rights in society comes from natural law, the idea that certain rights are inherently good or bad. Natural law allows the right to pursue the common good and allows one’s own flourishing.

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Public Hearing on Bill Prohibiting UW Employees from Performing Abortions

via Pro-Life WI

State Representative André Jacque (R-De Pere) and State Senator Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield) have introduced companion legislation (Assembly Bill 206 / Senate Bill 154) that would prohibit both UW System and UW Hospital & Clinics Authority employees from performing or assisting in the performance of abortions while in the scope of their employment.

Assembly Bill 206/Senate Bill 154 would effectively end UW medical resident abortion training and UW faculty performance of abortions at the Madison Planned Parenthood abortion facility, a grisly arrangement that stains the reputation of Wisconsin’s public university system and flagship hospital.

The Assembly Science and Technology Committee will hold a public hearing on AB 206 tomorrow Tuesday, July 18 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 417 North (GAR Hall) of the State Capitol.

Pro-Life Wisconsin Legislative Director Matt Sande will testify in support of AB 206. Cynthia Jones-Nosacek, MD and James Linn, MD, president and vice-president of the Milwaukee Guild of the Catholic Medical Association, respectively, will also testify in support of AB 206.

Major in Logic at UW-Madison

Several students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison admit that Muslims should not be forced by law to do business with Christians. Those same students, however, had a hard time agreeing that Christians or conservative Americans have the right to decline work that conflicts with their conscience or religion.

In a viral video published by Arizona-based nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom (ADL), students were asked if they support Sophie Theallet’s decision not to dress Melania Trump.

Several students agreed that Theallet — one of many fashion designers declining to dress the first family — has every right to refuse to dress Mrs. Trump.

The students were also asked if a Muslim singer solicited by a Christian church to sing had a right to refuse.

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University of Wisconsin Course Examines Negative Effects of Masculinity

A six-week program offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to counter the effects of the societal expectation for men to be masculine.

The program centers on the premise that masculinity is primarily a societal construct rather than an intrinsic biological reality. Based on this premise, radical gender theorists argue that masculinity has a toxic influence on society.

The “Men’s Project” is a six-week program for male students that asks participants to reflect on the negative effects of the expectation to be masculine. A news release from the University of Wisconsin material claims that one of the goals is to “prevent future violence” from male students.

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HT Cream City Catholic

Wisconsin native who was found dead in Rome's Tiber river 'was thrown off a bridge by group of men' before $1,500 was spent on his credit card in Milan

The American student whose body was pulled from the Tiber River in Rome four days after he arrived in the country was thrown off a bridge by a group of men, witnesses say, before $1,500 was charged to his credit card hundreds of miles away in Milan.

Beau Solomon, 19, from Wisconsin, was reported missing when he failed to show up for orientation at John Cabot University.

He had landed in Rome on Thursday to start a study abroad program at the university, whose campus is in the central Trastevere district, which is near the river and popular with young people.

That evening, he headed out to G-Bar near Piazza Trilussa and as last seen leaving at around 1am on Friday morning. His body was found on Monday.

Early reports said the teenager, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin Madison who survived a rare form of cancer as a child, was found wearing a bloodied shirt with a wound on his head.

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Nick and Jodi Solomon, who live in Spring Green about 40 miles west of Madison, had simply warned their son about pick pocketing while he was abroad.

When they asked for updates from their son after he arrived in Italy on Thursday, he wrote: 'Everything's so pretty, it's so beautiful.'

His older brother Cole said he was 'the most responsible kid ever' and said surviving cancer had contributed to his incredible grit.

‘He had over 15 to 20 procedures growing up throughout his life and was able to overcome all of that and still became a phenomenal high school athlete,' Cole told WKOW.

There goes the "Brutalist Bunker"

via Fr Heilman

And HT Tim

Here's a photo of Old St Paul's.

Just a weeeeeee bit of discontinuity with the interim (an article full of brutalist lunacy, btw)

Former Catholic school becomes housing for UW-Madison students

The rosary beads next to the foosball table in Sam Gagliardi’s apartment suggest he has both fun and faith on his mind this school year.

The UW-Madison junior is one of the inaugural tenants of Lumen House, the unusual campus housing project undertaken by three Downtown Madison Catholic congregations. The merged congregations are together known as the Cathedral Parish.

The three-story apartment building, 142 W. Johnson St., was formerly Holy Redeemer Catholic School, which closed in 1965. It is adjacent to Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, one of the congregations in the Cathedral Parish.

The parish spent about $3.5 million to convert the school into student housing, said Monsignor Kevin Holmes, parish leader. There are 19 apartment units of varying sizes, with total space for about 65 people.

The project is an attempt by the parish to turn a property that was quickly deteriorating into one that both generates income and furthers its religious mission. So far, both goals seem to be panning out.

UW Badger Catholic Honored for Efforts in Conservation

The University of Wisconsin campus is home to dozens of student organizations whose focus is geared specifically to sustainable practices. You can imagine what a pleasant surprise it has been for Badger Catholics after learning that our organization has been chosen by the Office of Sustainability for the Bucky Award for Conservation and Sustainability, the first Bucky Award in our history!

I am convinced that we won this award not because we have done more than all of those sustainably-minded organizations have done to promote conservation and sustainability, but because our efforts are the fruit of what all of these organizations have been working toward for years: the widespread acknowledgment of the reality that sustainability is not to be relegated to a certain class of students who take certain courses and are a part of a certain campus subculture, but that it is for everybody. In other words, responsible use of resources is just common sense. We owe a huge debt to those other student organizations for educating the student body all of these years in order to make good sense more commonplace!

Of course, as Catholics, we believe that while sustainable practices are certainly a matter of common sense, they are also much more than that. They are a mandate upon our consciences from our Creator. In the face of a consumerist culture of waste, He asks us to live simply—to master the fleeting appetites and comforts of the flesh for the sake of the lasting gifts he has given us. He asks us to share in the process of creation’s redemption and restoration, through Christ.

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Cemetery of Innocence by Students for Life UW Madison

Photos courtesy of Jen Dunnett

City of Madison cracks down on pro-life speech; lawsuit filed

Last night the City of Madison passed a buffer zone ordinance designed to crack down on free speech of pro-life prayer volunteers and sidewalk counselors. From the Wisconsin State Journal:

The ordinance from Ald. Lisa Subeck, 1st District, is a response to continued protests at Planned Parenthood’s East Side clinic....It creates a protective zone within 160 feet of health clinics to allow patients and others to enter and exit without obstruction. It also bans protesters from being within 8 feet of a person — unless the person consents — to engage in oral protest, education, counseling, passing leaflets or handbills, or displaying signs if on a public way or sidewalk within the 160-foot-protective zone.

Subeck previously worked for NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. Her ties to the abortion industry have largely been downplayed in the Madison media.

This morning, the Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction on behalf of local pro-lifers. The list of plaintiffs features a "who's who" of state and local pro-life advocates including Madison Vigil for Life, Inc. (and two of its volunteers), Jennifer Dunnett of the Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Theresa Klinkhammer and Connie Nielsen of St. Ambrose Academy's Guardians for Life, Students for Life of Madison, the "other" Badger Catholic (the University of Wisconsin-Madison Catholic organization), Fr. Rick Heilman of the Knights of Divine Mercy and others.

Matt Bowman of the Alliance Defending Freedom successfully represented local pro-life medical professionals and pro-life advocates in 2009-10 when the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics attempted to install a late-term abortion facility near the UW-Madison campus. Bowman and the ADF also represented the UW Badger Catholic student group when UW-Madison violated the organization's free speech rights, ultimately collecting nearly half a million dollars in attorney's fees.

Update: Obligatory--

UW's Sex Out Loud attacks UW Badger Catholic for hosting chastity talk

Utterly ridiculous, but thanks for the publicity. Goes on to claim he's a member of the Liberal Catholic Church and we should all obey him in his rigorously dogmatic institution. Really, he's angry because men were passing out roses to women(well later admits the chastity talk is attacking Sex Out Loud and that's why he's really mad). Mad, because men want to respect women. And he is ranting and raving that Catholics are permitted to teach their religion to their own members. If we are not all Cultural Marxists then apparently we are "blatantly sexist." We are supposed to promote "judgment-free sex" which of course the writer does not actually believe, since that would include incest, bestiality, and rape. Maybe he is a Darren Sharper fan? Ooooh, but it has to be consensual - well then you just passed judgement then, didn't cha? The writer even invokes Pope Francis - who has apparently supplanted the "bigoted members of the hierarchy." There's several straw men hanging out in here, and he gets so lost in the utopia of his mind that his closing is barely coherent. No friend, your ideas are the old, stale traditions that you hope to resurrect, our ideas have all the freshness, progress, and longing of a Wisconsin Spring.

Some may have noticed that a group of men were passing roses out to women passing by the St. Paul University Catholic Center on Library Mall. These individuals were taking part in a small campaign being spearheaded by Badger Catholic, a spirituality and faith organization on campus according to their website, called Roses in Library Mall.

Perhaps Badger Catholic had good intentions with this, but it was nonetheless a deeply inherently sexist, backwards and utterly ridiculous effort on their part. According to the event’s Facebook page, the goal was to offer Badgers “another viewpoint on love!” Roses were sold to men who would add notes to them with messages to give to passing women telling them they have “inherent dignity and beauty.”

What Badger Catholic offers though is a reminder to the UW-Madison community that sexism and patriarchal social expectations are alive and well in our society and even well educated people can still adhere to such ideas.

The assertion by Badger Catholic with this campaign is 1) only men have the authority to tell women they have dignity and beauty, they offer no opportunity for women to decide this for themselves 2) it ignores that not all people base their definition of dignity and beauty in the same way as Badger Catholic 3) it works to reinforce gender roles and the expectation that all sex is heterosexual while ignoring female sexuality.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/daily-cardinal/opinion/badger-catholic-campaign-reinforces-gender-stereotypes/article_f79ee8b2-97a1-11e3-b338-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz2tgrPErEn

BUT, this does give me an idea for a Catholic drinking game..... for a later post ...."hierarchy" "bigoted" "sexist"... I'm thinking when the drink words appear in the same sentence, that the number of drinks doubles....

FYI, Jason Evert gave a talk at UW recently.

The opening UW snowball fight seems early this year

Or am I just being a Grinch.

This is only the beginning, Badgers. You have so much to look forward to. #uwwinter pic.twitter.com/ZFiO1gkaaO
— UW-Madison (@UWMadison) November 25, 2013

St Paul University Catholic Center's new video

Madtown: Helping university students see life in Jesus Christ

“Without St. Paul’s,” University of Wisconsin-Madison student Jamie Wheeler reflects, “without the guidance it offers . . . ” She pauses. Then she smiles. “We would be missing the Big Picture.”

Jamie is a chemistry Ph.D. student from Texas. Three years ago, she made the big move north to study at the University of Wisconsin.

The “Big Picture” Jamie refers to is, of course, life in Jesus Christ. Students like Jamie can’t even imagine what their years of formation as young adults would be like without the grounding they receive at St. Paul University Catholic Center.

Young adults coming out of the shelter of home and into a world-class campus like the University of Wisconsin face what too often becomes a subconscious decision to the Big Question: now that my parents aren’t around to drag me to Mass on Sunday, am I going to keep the faith or leave it behind?

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Large pro-life display at UW-Madison

UW-Madison religious advocates encourage increased faith awareness

Sean McNally

Although the University of Wisconsin-Madison funds organizations of a variety of religious backgrounds, some campus religious leaders believe understanding different faiths should play a more prominent role.

Sean McNally, president of Badger Catholic, said a broad perspective of world religions is an “essential” part of the liberal arts education promoted by the university, and he would like to see improvements in campus religious engagement.

“There are completely different worlds for how you live out your faith on campus,” McNally said. “If we’re going to do diversity, let’s do it big and embrace that and have discussions.”

Additionally, McNally said he would like to see an increased emphasis on religion from the university, such as including it in the ethnic studies requirement.

“I’d like to see large group discussions in a respectful and open space,” McNally said. “Highlighting religious diversity more would be something easy to do and give a lot of students a much broader perspective on differences.”

Professor of history and religious studies Charles Cohen also said religious understanding should play a bigger role, adding he believes the university’s religious diversity efforts are “feeble and lacking.”

UW-Madison opposes new bill prohibiting harvesting “fetal body parts” from aborted babies

In Wisconsin, Rep. Andre Jacque recently introduced pro-life bill LRB0143/2 which prohibits the acquisition and utilization of “fetal body parts” from aborted babies. This bill is being opposed by the University of Wisconsin – Madison as they state the babies will be discarded anyway and the research ”fosters significant economic development” in the state of Wisconsin.

UW-Madison Press Release Opposing Pro-Life Bill

Wisconsin Family Action

MONEY! Well why didnt cha say so! After all, who's opposed to money!?

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Want to hear great church music? Head to the train station.

As a transplant from New York City who spent lots of time in the public transportation system (I commuted to high school from the suburbs for four years), I was astounded to discover this NYTimes story.

On a recent Sunday afternoon, 17 people with sheet music gathered in a semicircle in the Graybar Passage at Grand Central Terminal. People streamed by. After a brief warm-up, the group’s conductor, John Hetland, dressed in dark jeans and a green plaid shirt, lifted his hands and the chorus began its a cappella rendition of a polyphonic hymn, “Kyrie,” by the 15th-century German composer Heinrich Finck.

The hallway filled with sound, the baritones roiling like cumulonimbus clouds, the altos and sopranos shooting through like light, the melodies intertwining. The voices carried down the hall and were faintly audible in the Main Concourse. A crowd gathered to listen, but no one gave money, because there was nowhere to put it. When the song was over, Mr. Hetland turned around to face the small audience.

“We’re the Renaissance Street Singers,” he said, “singing the music that we love to sing and to share.”

I had never heard of this group until today; commuting to and from Long Island probably contributed to that. (Grand Central Terminal serves the suburbs north of Manhattan; and compared to GCT, NY Penn Station is positively ugly, both visually and acoustically.)

Here's the Wisconsin connection:

Mr. Hetland, 71, has been singing choral music nearly all his life. His father, Henry Hetland, was a Lutheran campus minister at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where students called him “Pastor Hank”) and, later, the executive secretary of the National Lutheran Campus Ministry in Oakland, Calif. In Wisconsin, he had directed a 50-voice choir, and he taught his four children to sing multipart hymns and folk songs to pass the time on long car rides. Soon, Mr. Hetland, his older sisters, Pauline and Maren, and his younger brother, Jim, were singing complex music as a treble quartet.

St. Pauls University Catholic Center membership clarified

Don't worry, this is getting replaced

Bishop Robert C. Morlino has issued a decree clarifying the status of the “community of faithful” constituting the “personal parish” at St. Paul’s University Catholic Center in Madison.

Bishop Morlino notes that in 1967, Bishop Cletus F. O’Donnell erected the personal parish of St. Paul, indicating who would be considered members of the parish and further stipulating that registration would be required for parish membership.

After consulting with the Presbyteral Council and with former and current pastors of St. Paul, Bishop Morlino decided to clarify who would be considered members of the parish. Bishop Morlino also decided to remove the registration requirement and to expand the period of membership.

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