Colleen Dorman Jurkiewicz

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Director of communications for the biggest parish in the archdiocese by day and novelist by night, Sarah Razner wears many hats. But both her roles involve telling interesting stories about dynamic people who seek truth and goodness in the world — and in themselves. “As I am creating a character, usually one of my main questions I ask myself is, ‘How will they become better throughout this story?’” Razner said.

1 month ago | catholicherald.org | Colleen Dorman Jurkiewicz

Terry Horst confers with Linda Boettcher of Archie Monuments & Stone in Watertown over the design of the Memorial for the Unborn at St. Clare Cemetery in North Lake. (Submitted photo) “Your eyes saw my unformed body,” says the Psalm. “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139:16)Before a child is known or loved by anyone, he is known and loved by his Creator. Before the vague outline of her face can be seen in the grainiest ultrasound.

1 month ago | catholicherald.org | Colleen Dorman Jurkiewicz

Frs. Brady Gagne, Timothy Sanchez and Aaron Siehr were ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on May 17 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee, by Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob.

1 month ago | catholicherald.org | Colleen Dorman Jurkiewicz

Dcns. Alex Becker, Peter Danner, Joel Kolb, Andrew Swietlik, Redmond Tuttle and Nicholas Waddell were ordained to the diaconate for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee April 26 in anticipation of their ordination to the priesthood next year. They are shown with Rector Fr. Luke Strand, Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob, Vice Rector Fr. John Baumgardner and archdiocese Vocations Director Fr. Michael Malucha. (Photo courtesy of Saint Francis de Sales Seminary)Dcns.

1 month ago | catholicherald.org | Colleen Dorman Jurkiewicz

In May 1975, newly ordained Fr. Jerome Listecki greets family and friends at his home parish of St. Michael the Archangel Church in Chicago following his first Mass as a priest. (Photo courtesy of the Catholic Times)It was a long time they had to kneel on the hard marble floor of the chapel May 14, 1975, as hundreds of their now-brother priests filed past, pausing to lay hands upon their bowed heads.