Tom Heinen reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Father Michael van der Peet contacts with Mother Teresa during her dark decades of the soul. Fr. van der Peet is a member of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, and now serves as the spiritual director at his order's seminary here in Franklin.
Besides the seminary, their Franklin facility includes a monastery. A few miles away in Franklin there's also a Xaverian Missionary Fathers monastery.
The headline writer's "holy man" conjures up pictures of pilgrims flocking to the Root River. If you visit Franklin, or pass through, it won't seem all that unusual. Still, there can't be that many other suburbs with two monasteries.
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