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[Catholic Caucus] Norbertines Promote ‘Coming Out’ Week on Campus Concerned Catholic students push back gay encroachment on their faith DE PERE, Wis. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Catholic college in Wisconsin was about to kick off its first LGBTQ-themed week with a "Coming Out" Mass on Oct. 13. But, after a number of the college's concerned Catholic students pushed back, the Coming Out Mass was canceled. The St. Norbert's College (SNC) in De Pere, Wisconsin, is nonetheless scheduled to host a variety of gay-related activities from Oct. 11–18 to honor LGBT History Month and National Coming Out Day, which was Friday, Oct. 11. SNC Coming Out Week schedule The Coming Out...

They are raising money doing one of the things they do best: sing! The chant is fantastic, and very valuable for anyone who loves the Gregorian tradition, because the Norbertine books offer a slight variation on the Roman chant. They sing beautifully, based on their last CD of Christmas propers (a CD which I just adore), and this one appears to offer a broader range of music.

ST. NORBERT, C.—1080-1134. Feast: June 6 From his life, faithfully written by Hugh, his first disciple, and successor in the government of his order abridged by Helyot, Hist. des Ordres Relig. t. 2, p. 104, Fleury, Papebroke, t. 1, Junii, p. 808, and several works of F. Charles Lewis Hugo, abbot of Etival, in Lorraine, of this order, and bishop of Ptolemais, in partibus Infidelium, who died at Etival in 1739. See especially his life of St. Norbert, with curious notes, in 4to., printed at Luxembourg, 1704. His letters to the abbe de Lorkot, in defence of this life,...