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By Barry Adams – Wisconsin State Journal – The $33 million transformation of St. Bernard Catholic Church into a cathedral for the Diocese of Madison has just encountered a $2 million cost overrun. Only this one is covered by insurance. Almost six months after a clay-tile roof was installed on the 99-year-old Atwood Avenue building, the scaffolding is going back up after last week’s hailstorm shattered many of the tiles, dented adjacent copper roofs and trim and even damaged some of the wood sheathing under the tile. Read more of this story.

By Barry Adams – Wisconsin State Journal – The mission here is care and compassion. And over the years, Madison’s oldest church congregation has lived up to its charge, behind and beyond the red doors that stand out amid the weathered sandstone at the corner of West Washington Avenue and Capitol Square. Grace Episcopal Church hosted the city’s men’s homeless shelter from 1984 to 2020 and continues to minister to the homeless. The church has operated a food pantry for more than 50 years, offers free concerts and has undertaken mission trips to Haiti. But caring for its own building…