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No such thing as a ‘typical’ U.S. parish; a glance at some versions
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Father Jean Paulin Lockulu celebrates Mass at St. John by the Sea Church in Klawock on Prince of Wales Island in southeastern Alaska. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec) By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service (First in a series) WASHINGTON (CNS) — If Pope Francis...
Priest says taking ‘selfies,’ posting them a way to connect to students
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (CNS) — As the Catholic Campus Ministry director at the Newman Center on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh campus, Fr. Jason Blahnik is always looking for new ways to engage young people and attract them to his Catholic ministry. This...
Photographer’s life work to expose horrors of global human trafficking
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass By Sam Lucero DE PERE, Wis. (CNS) -- Lisa Kristine was 11 when her aunt and uncle gave her an Olympus 35 mm camera. From a converted darkroom in her home in California, she developed black-and-white film and...
Bishop’s pastoral visit to inmates part of Year of Mercy outreach
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass By Sam Lucero REDGRANITE, Wis. (CNS) — Behind a makeshift altar standing in the shadows of a basketball hoop, Bishop David L. Ricken celebrated Mass in a gymnasium that could have been mistaken for any Catholic...
12/22/16: NFL Ad Revenue Drops; Cubs in Sunday night spotlight; Tim Duncan’s new cereal
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CYNOPSISSPORTS 12.22.16 Good morning. It’s Thursday December 22, 2016 and this is your first early morning Sports briefing. The NFL’s ad revenue - after increasing in September and October – was down 17% year-over-year in November, according to ADWEEK...

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Ten years ago, I was driving a rental car in a European country. I landed in Brussels, Belgium, as a private pilgrim and intended to visit several Marian shrines. The focus of my trip was to research the title of Our Lady, Notre Dame de Bon Secours ...
See the presence of Jesus

With the upcoming feast of the Epiphany, and this being the last edition of The Compass, it feels appropriate that we acknowledge our Compass staff. Since 1978, they have manifested in print the Word of God made flesh through its pages. Our gratitude...
Past editors reflect on the diocese’s newspapers

GREEN BAY — Over 67 years, the diocese has been served by three newspapers and a magazine/newspaper hybrid. The bimonthly On Mission magazine began in November of this year. The Green Bay Register was founded in 1956, followed by The Spirit newspaper...
The Compass sunsets and celebrates newspaper legacy

GREEN BAY — The Compass newspaper closes with its final issue on Dec. 29, 2023. It will be succeeded by On Mission magazine, a bimonthly periodical that debuted with its November/December 2023 issue. With this transition, it seems a good time to look...
A sweet Christmas treat that ages well

Did you know that fruitcake helped build a cathedral in Germany? No, not by using cakes for the bricks — as the joke might go. It was more about something called the “Butter Letter.” More on that later, but first a little history on what we know today...

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Four nuns killed when truck hits van in Ethiopia | The Compass

NEW YORK — Four Daughters of St. Anne sisters — including the provincial superior — were killed in a crash about 80 miles south of Addis Ababa,