Sam Lucero

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Michael R. Lovell, 57, president of Marquette University in Milwaukee, died June 9, 2024, in Italy while on a Jesuit formation pilgrimage with members of the Society of Jesus and the Jesuit university's board of trustees. Lovell, pictured in a 2020 photo outside of the Alumni Memorial Union building on the Marquette campus, had been battling sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, for three years. Lovell was the first lay president in the Jesuit school's 133-year history. (OSV News/Sam Lucero)

Jun 11, 2024

Marquette University's first lay president dies in Rome on pilgrimage

Michael R. Lovell, 57, president of Marquette University, died June 9 in Italy while on a Jesuit formation pilgrimage with members of the Society of Jesus and the Jesuit university's board of trustees.

Dec 22, 2020

College student creates gingerbread cathedral, raises money for homeless

Stanford mechanical engineering student Joel Kiernan created a gingerbread Notre Dame Cathedral, raising almost $4,000 for a Green Bay homeless shelter.

Mar 01, 2019

Green Bay Diocese will remove name of former bishop from Cathedral Center

Green Bay Bishop David Ricken announced in a letter to parishioners of St. Francis Xavier Cathedral that former Bishop Aloysius Wycislo's name will be removed from the Cathedral Center, a facility located north of the cathedral.

Feb 22, 2019

Monk's tonsure at Wisconsin monastery seen as hopeful sign for vocations

A Divine Liturgy brought together four jurisdictions of Eastern-rite Catholic communities, as well as the local Latin-rite Catholic community, at St. Gregory Catholic Church in St. Nazianz.

Sep 21, 2018

Retired Green Bay auxiliary Bishop Morneau withdraws from public ministry

Retired Auxiliary Bishop Robert Morneau of Green Bay has requested and has been granted a withdrawal from all public ministry, saying he failed to report to authorities an incident of priest sexual abuse of a minor in 1979.