The service of the Bishop and of his principal collaborators, the priests, as true teachers of the faith and sure moral guides is critical and indeed irreplaceable in the lives of individuals and in the life of society. The deposit of faith is the teaching of the Apostles and the

This is the great Mystery of the Redemptive Incarnation, the Virginal Conception and the Birth of God the Son – true God and true man – to die on the cross on Calvary for our eternal salvation. By His Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension, God the Son Incarnate has restored

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a most effective means of living always in the company of our Lord Jesus whom we receive in Holy Communion. In other words, our devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is an extended act of love for Him who shows us the greatest possible

In understanding the meaning of the Scriptural passage referring to the piercing of the Heart of Jesus, it is important to remember the significance of the heart in the Holy Scriptures. In the Bible, the heart is the center of man, wherein is found his fullest being. It is in the

The blood and water which flowed from the Pierced Heart of Jesus is the sign of His life with us in the Church. Once risen from the dead and seated in glory at the right hand of the Father, Christ has never ceased to pour out, from His glorious Pierced Heart, the grace of the

The center of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the Enthronement of the image of the Sacred Heart in the home. By the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart, we link the tabernacle of our parish church to our home, inviting our Lord to be our constant and most intimate

On June 29, the occasion of my Golden Jubilee of Ordination to the Holy Priesthood, please join me at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI for Holy Mass for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul.

"The Sacred Heart of Jesus, substantially united to the Word of God, is overwhelmed with love for us. His compassionate love is ever aflame on our behalf. He has chosen to love us with a human heart unconditionally, totally, and forever. Out of faithful and enduring love for us,

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In our gratitude today for the Apostles Saints Peter and Paul, and for the gift of 50 years of priestly life given to me, let us pray for those whom Christ is now calling to be fishers of men - our seminarians - and those are being called but have not yet entered the seminary.

Homily on the Solemnity of Saints Peter & Paul

Praised be Jesus Christ! I am very humbled to have received this letter from His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV, for the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of my ordination to the Holy Priesthood. Please join me in thanking Our Lord for the election of Pope Leo XIV, Successor of Saint

Placing our hearts into the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we are necessarily engaged in His kingly mission, in which to serve is to reign. Christ the King is to reign in our hearts, as He reigned perfectly in the Heart of His Virgin Mother from the moment of her Immaculate Conception.

God sealed the covenant of His love with us, through Moses, at Mount Sinai with the sprinkling of the blood of “young bulls” offered in sacrifice. He brought the covenant to fulfillment with the Blood of Christ, which was poured out in sacrifice, for us, from His pierced Heart on

The great Mystery of Faith, of the Real Presence of Christ with us in the Most Blessed Sacrament, is entrusted into the hands of ordained priests for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. For that reason, dear brothers, priests and those responding to the priestly

Worshiping the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, we rejoice in the great mystery of God’s steadfast and enduring love of us, His marriage with us, sealed by the age-old covenant which is consummated in the outpouring of the Most Precious Blood of His only-begotten Son. Through the

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