Priests

When the Priest Doesn’t Look Like Us

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Meet Father George Komo, a Kenyan priest who’s been serving in our diocese for a handful of years. In a few months, Father George will leave behind the life as a parish priest and enlist in the Armed Services, on loan to the Archdiocese for the Military Services as a chaplain. We can’t help but wonder if somehow we ran him off. Not we as in just us Schmidts, but we as in first-world Catholics who may very well be just a little too used to getting exactly what we want.

I’ll Trade You Father Paul for Archbishop Listecki

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New trading cards promote Catholic religious vocations Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki is among a handful of Catholic religious leaders featured on a new deck of trading cards circulating around Milwaukee. The initiative launched last week is meant to drum up interest in religious vocations. Distribution of the cards began after Mass at two diocesan parishes on … [Read more…]