Very Rev. Tait Schroeder, Vicar General, publishes the decree uniting the parishes of St. Patrick in Benton, St. Rose of Lima in Cuba City, Holy Ghost in Dickeyville, St. Francis de Sales in Hazel Green, Immaculate Conception in Kieler, St. Mary in Platteville, and St. Joseph in Sinsinawa to become St. Dominic Parish, as issued by Most Rev. Donald Hying, Bishop of Madison, and announces the following clergy appointments, all effective Saturday, August 8, 2026, and announced the same day.

The Reverend Father Richard “Dick” John Leffler entered eternity on Friday, July 31, 2026, at the age of 74. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Joseph Catholic Church (St. Pius of Pietrelcina Parish), 305 E. Walnut St., Dodgeville, on Monday, August 10, 2026 at 11:00 a.m., with a visitation immediately prior beginning at 9:00 a.m.

On a campus of tens of thousands in the heart of the Diocese of Madison, more and more college students are asking questions about faith – and finding their way to the Catholic Church. Beginning Wednesday, July 29, Bishop Donald J. Hying takes up that story in a new two-part series on "Things Visible and Invisible," in conversation with Fr. David Carrano, pastor of the St. Paul University Catholic Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Very Rev. Tait Schroeder, Vicar General, announces the following clergy appointments, as issued by Most Rev. Donald Hying, Bishop of Madison, effective on October 5, 2026.

Over three conversations, Bishop Hying sits down with Tristan Borland, the diocese's associate director of marriage and family ministry, and a former Evangelical pastor, to trace Borland's long road to the Catholic Church.

The Reverend Father William “Bill” John Hower entered into eternity on Friday, July 3, 2026, at the age of 87 at Aurora Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI.