continue at JSAt least eight Catholic priests with ties to Wisconsin are among those identified Monday in an ongoing effort by the Jesuit religious order to make public the names of priests and brothers with credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults.
The Jesuits' USA Midwest and Maryland provinces released the names of 89 priests and brothers with credible or established allegations of sexually abusing a minor since the 1950s, several of whom had already been named among the 151 identified Dec. 7 by the west and south-central provinces.
The Midwest list includes four accused of molesting minors while they were serving at Marquette University or Marquette University High School. Allegations against four others stem from their time at Campion High School in Prairie du Chien.
It also identifies two additional Chicago priests supervised by former Marquette University President Robert Wild, who pulled his name from a new $108 million residence hall this fall, saying he mishandled allegations against three priests when he led that province from 1985 to 1991.
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JS: At least 8 Wisconsin priests are on the Jesuits' latest list of accused abusers
Third Strand brother ordained to the priesthood in Milwaukee today
While entering into the priesthood is on a decline nationally, one local family is helping reverse that trend in Milwaukee. Three brothers will be ordained priests after Saturday, June 4th -- as the final Strand brother is set to be ordained.continue at Fox6 (St. Joan of Arc Chapel invoked)
FOX6 News sat down with the brothers to talk about how rare this is -- three priests in one family.
"There's a combination of a very, very deep peace with a lot of excitement," said Vincent Strand.
In less than 24 hours, Vincent Strand will be an ordained priest. Following in not one, but two of his brother's footsteps.
"People are always quite surprised naturally. This is very rare to have three brothers who are all ordained priests," said Father Jacob Strand.
Also
WISN,
Jesuits in U.S. and Canada to Ordain 20 New Priests
via Deacons Bench (also a link to Vincent Strand talks about his vocation)
The Strands are lovely. I went to college with their sister, and the whole crew is just wonderful! Pray for them! :) https://t.co/niagkVZzxq— Maggie Melchior (@MaggieMelchior) June 4, 2016
So does anyone know how Fr. Luke Strand is doing? Josh posted a couple years back that he was going through treatments for colon cancer.
Update:
@badgercatholic Fr. Luke is doing very, BTW. Saw him at the Corpus Christi procession at Holy Hill last Sunday.— Br. Joseph Gannon ن (@BrJosephOCD) June 4, 2016
JS: Marquette unveils new $15 million Jesuit Residence
The private donors who gave $15 million to build a new Jesuit Residence and develop landscaped open space in the center of the Marquette University campus were inspired by an opportunity to support the priests who teach and minister there.continue at JS
"It was impressive, and we are extremely grateful," said former Marquette President Father Robert A. Wild, who took reporters on a tour of the 40,000-square-foot, five-story brick residence where he and 24 other Jesuit priests just moved before the building's formal dedication Friday.
Wild served as the university's president from 1996 to 2011 and returned as interim president before President Michael Lovell was appointed last year. He still works at Marquette part time in fundraising.
"I thought this might be tough fundraising, but it came together as quickly as any project we've had at Marquette," Wild said of the new residence. "The building was entirely funded when we put the shovel in the ground."
Wild described the cost of the project as "fairly reasonable." The building was designed by Kubala Washatko Architects and built by KBS Construction for $8 million to $9 million.
Don't worry folks, they made sure the chapel looked poorer than Pope Francis.
I do like this little addition though.
Church of Gesu pastor John Schlegel diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
continue at JSOmaha, Neb. — Former Creighton University President John Schlegel, who now serves as pastor of the Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee, has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer
The Omaha World-Herald reported Thursday that the Jesuit priest who led Creighton during a period of growth from 2000 to 2011 shared news of his diagnosis in a letter.
Schlegel asked for prayers from his family and friends as he decides whether to undergo chemotherapy or let the disease take its course.
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How Long Does Christmas Last?
This Spiritual Reflection was posted by Fr. Frank Majka, S.J., at his personal blog,
The Bridge, and comes via
Marquette University High School, where he currently serves as Mission Associate.
He concludes,
"So, our prayerful reflection on the truths of Christmas can certainly continue long after the season is officially over. Some of us may even want to be reminded of Christmas all during the year. And, after all, nothing says the manger scene can’t stay up all the time, complete with Mary and Joseph, shepherds, the magi, the angels and even the animals, for Christmas will always be a permanent and central part of the Christian faith."And, I'm thinking, we could add statues or other images of the saints throughout the year, until we replace it all with the Advent wreath, and start over.
Good Jesuit: Fr. Cletus Healy, S.J.
Local Milwaukee priest and indefatigable bulwark of Catholic tradition Father Cletus Healy S.J. died earlier this week at the ripe age of 96. A Jesuit in the truest sense of the word, Father Healy worked, rather fought, on the cultural frontline for decades, relentlessly defending Catholic teaching when that teaching was coming into greater conflict with the demands of an increasingly secular and hostile society.From JS Online:
Requiescat in pace.
The Rev. Cletus Healy warned about the evils of communism, presided over annual vigils at the gravesite of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and wrote "Stations of the Cross for the Victims of Abortion."Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/jesuit-priest-championed-conservative-catholic-values-in-era-of-change-b99243049z1-254742001.html#ixzz2ybBOBAfP
These were the passions of Healy, a Jesuit who — in an era of change that was troubling for some Catholics — emerged as a bastion of long-held conservative values.
"He was a voice of reason, of continuity — a connection with the Vatican that was often blurred, especially through the '60s and '70s, when things were in such turmoil," his friend Mary Lou Wirtz said of Healy, who died of congestive heart failure Monday at St. Camillus Jesuit Retirement Community in Wauwatosa. He was 96.
The second of eight children raised on a farm in Newton, Iowa, John Cletus Healy attended public schools and briefly studied agriculture before feeling the calling to the priesthood.
"He said he was chosen," Wirtz said. "He kind of ducked it, and then he realized he couldn't. He struggled leaving the farm. He loved the farm life."
Named after his father, he went by his middle name throughout his life. Healy entered St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Mo., in 1938, and was ordained in 1951. He taught sociology and religion at Marquette University High School until 1968.
When many priests were becoming politically liberal in the 1960s, Healy often was a conservative voice.
"Father Healy was a voice for authentic Catholicism when there were liberals screaming 'New is best' on one side and conservatives yelling 'Only the old has value' on the other side," Wirtz said. "He always agreed with the Vatican, and he suffered persecution for standing with the church when many others were swayed away."
In the post-Vatican II era, Catholics who were troubled by changes in the church came to Healy. For instance, Wirtz met him at age 7, when her parents balked at the idea, a product of Vatican II, that she would receive her first Holy Communion without first going to confession.
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Also: Stations of the Cross For the Victims of Abortion, By Fr. Healy
JS: $15 million new home planned for Marquette's Jesuits
Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/topstories/marquette-university-gets-anonymous-10-million-gift-b99192370z1-242228701.html#ixzz2riUeKPS7A $10 million gift from an anonymous benefactor will help Marquette University build a new residence at the center of campus for its community of Jesuit priests and boost need-based scholarships for students, Father Robert A. Wild, the university's interim president, announced Monday.
Wild said $7.5 million of the gift would be used toward a new Jesuit Residence one block north of the existing building.
The project, which will cost a total of $15 million, also will allow the university to renovate the center of campus with more green space and less surface parking after the existing Jesuit Residence is eventually torn down.
The project will be financed entirely from donations.
The new building will be built in the 1400 block of W. Wells St., flanked by the Alumni Memorial Union and Schroeder Hall.
Construction is to begin after another $7.5 million is raised.
The remaining $2.5 million of the anonymous gift will be dedicated to need-based scholarships, a key priority identified in the university's strategic plan unveiled last May, according to Wild, who shared the news Monday in a letter to faculty and staff.
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92 yr old Milwaukee Jesuit censured for Mass with wymenpriest
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A 92-year-old Milwaukee Jesuit is the latest American priest to be sanctioned for celebrating the Catholic Mass with a woman priest[oooh, now we find out it has something to do with theology] in violation of church teaching.continue at JS
Father Bill Brennan, a longtime peace activist, has been ordered not to celebrate the Eucharist or other sacraments publicly, or to present himself publicly as a priest by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and his religious order, the Society of Jesus. [I know i shouldn't be impressed but I am]
It comes three weeks after Brennan celebrated Mass with Milwaukee native the Rev. Janice Sevre-Duszynska during an annual protest at what was historically known as the School of the Americas at Fort Benning near Columbus, Ga.
And it follows the excommunication and defrocking of School of the Americas Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest who participated in Sevre-Duszynska's 2008 ordination in Lexington, Ky. (The former School of the Americas is now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.)
Brennan, who remains a priest and lives with other retired Jesuits in a Wauwatosa retirement home, said he knew he risked censure when he celebrated the sacrament with a woman priest.
"Sometimes in our lives we have to trust our conscience and bring about the consequences," said Brennan, a Wauwatosa native who taught at Marquette University High School beginning in 1968 and spent 17 years working in Latin America.
Ms. Johnson goes on to state that the existing 2000 year practice of priestly ordination is "highly controversial." That's just silly. Out of all the doctrinal problems within the Church, this one is the laughing stock. The pope himself said not that he won't change it, but that he can't. How much less controversial could it possibly be? I mean, look at the picture. We are supposed to take these people seriously?
Update: Wowza, just saw this at TPE
"Father Brennan said he plans to make it again next summer. 'I'm going to go with the next caravan,' he said. 'My goal is to have an ecumenical service at the tomb of Che Guevara. ...'"It's official. The man is a lunatic.
25 Wisconsin Jesuits sign Walker recall
continue at Cardinal Newman SocietyFather Thomas A. Lawler, SJ, a member of the Marquette University Board of Trustees and provincial of the Wisconsin Province of the Jesuits, has joined more than twenty-five other Wisconsin Jesuits in signing a petition supporting the recall of Governor Scott Walker.
At least seven of the signers may be Marquette University professors and staff; they each reported residing at the Jesuit residence at Marquette University, and their names match the following University employees: Rev. Robert Doran, S.J., Professor and Emmett Doerr Chair of Theology, Rev. Gregory O’Meara, S.J., Associate Professor in the School of Law, Rev. James O’Leary, S.J., Associate Director of the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality, Rev. Grant Garinger, S.J., Artistic Assistant Professor in the Diederich College of Communication, Rev. David Schultenover, S.J., Professor of Theology and Editor-in-Chief of Theological Studies, Rev. G. Harak, S.J., Director of the Center for Peacemaking, Rev. Michael Zeps, S.J., Associate Professor of History and University Minister.
The Republican governor, a Marquette graduate with a strong-pro life record, faces a vote to determine whether he gets to stay in office tomorrow. The campaign to recall Walker grew out of his budget-cutting efforts and his fight with the public service unions. Walker significantly reduced their ability to bargain collectively.
Looks like this was originally posted by Good Jesuit Bad Jesuit. See what happens when I'm out of the office! Is there anything more condemning than having the support of a Jesuit provincial superior?
Update: this was originally reported here
Charges against priest dropped in La Crosse groping case
Prosecutors Wednesday dropped a sexual assault charge filed against a Wisconsin priest accused of groping a 15-year-old girl when he was in La Crosse earlier this year.
The Rev. David Szatkowski, 38, of Franklin, Wis., had maintained his innocence since the charge was filed in August, his attorney Keith Belzer said.
“Unfortunately, members of the community often rush to judgment in cases such as these. Sometimes that judgment is made in error,” Belzer said. “In this case, an exhaustive investigation was conducted. At the conclusion of that investigation the charges were finally and appropriately dismissed.”
Prosecutors in September reduced a charge of sexual assault of a child under 16 years of age filed against Szatkowski to fourth-degree sexual assault and disorderly conduct.
For some reason in none of the articles did they ever mention he was a Jesuit, just his "religious order." Maybe they don't know what Jesuits are. [UPDATE: The PDF linked is for a group called "Priests of the Sacred Heart"] But it's a really weird story. Apparently we are to assume the girls made the whole thing up I guess, or that the contact was accidental or something.
Also on the Trib blog they share this:
PhotosIt's a welcomed relief to his provincial superior the Rev. Tom Cassidy at Priests of the Sacred Heart in Hales Corners, Wis.
"Obviously this is wonderful news, especially for Fr. David, who has done everything asked of him during the difficult investigative process," Cassidy writes in a letter.
Szatkowski's religious order will complete an independent investigation before deciding whether to return him to public ministry. You can read more about that process in Cassidy's letter here.
Fr. Szatkowski charges reduced in groping incident
Prosecutors today reduced a felony charge filed against a Wisconsin priest accused of groping a 15-year-old girl last month while he was in La Crosse.
The Rev. David Szatkowski, 37, now is charged fourth-degree sexual assault and disorderly conduct.
He was charged second-degree sexual assault of a child younger than 16 on Aug. 10 after the teen said he grabbed her breast outside the downtown La Crosse Radisson in early August, according to the complaint.
She told police a drunken man approached her group of friends and put his arms around her shoulders before groping her. One of her friends snapped a picture of the man on a Szatkowski on a cell phone.
Investigators tracked Szatkowski, of Franklin, Wis., to a canon law conference for canonists and civil attorneys at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
He identified himself in the cellphone picture but denied assaulting the teen, the complaint states.
Szatkowski resigned from his position as an assistant professor of canon law and director of the English as a second language program at Franklin's Sacred Heart School of Theology. He is not assigned to a parish.
Szatkowski's next hearing is set for Oct. 7.
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