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The Month of the Holy Rosary: awards for our schools, religious freedom, respect for life

Posted on 15 October 2011

October is usually a good month for weather in Chicago. It is always a good month in the Church, because it begins with commemorating a popular saint who is a doctor of the church and patron of the missions: St.…

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Two in One Flesh: Marriage in Nature, in the Church and in Civil Society

Posted on 07 October 2010

In the Archdiocese of Chicago, on Sept. 19, about 350 couples renewed their marriage vows during the annual Mass to celebrate the anniversary of those married 50 years. In reflecting on their 50 years together, some couples wrote that the…

Liturgy: Translation and Much More

Posted on 23 September 2010

On July 24, 2010, the Apostolic See of Rome confirmed the proper calendar, texts and adaptations for the dioceses of the United States of the third edition of the Roman Missal in the English language. The parishes of this and…

Growing Old: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Posted on 17 August 2010

People live longer these days; many people in this country have about 10 more years of life than would have been the case years ago. The death of a child is always a tragedy, although many died in childhood a…

Celebrating and Honoring Priesthood

Posted on 10 August 2010

The Year for Priests ended in the universal church last June, on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Christ’s love for his people is the origin of the ordained priesthood in the church. In our archdiocese, however, the…

Immigration and the Law

Posted on 03 August 2010

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
[Recently] I traveled with Bishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller and two priests of the archdiocese to the State of Michoacan in Mexico in order to learn about the place where many Catholics of Mexican origin in…

What We Have Seen…

Posted on 24 April 2010

During this Easter season, the church presents, in the liturgy of the Mass, the various apparitions of the risen Christ. We hear how even those who knew him best often failed to recognize Jesus when he appeared after his rising…

Whatever Happened to Herod?

Posted on 07 January 2010

One of the characters in the Christmas story who doesn’t appear around Jesus’ crib is King Herod. Herod was a powerful and able ruler who had rebuilt the great temple in Jerusalem. Instead of being grateful, many of his subjects…

Health, Wholeness and Holiness

Posted on 01 September 2009

The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, followed a week later by the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, are moments to recall our own future with God. Because Christ is risen from the dead in his…

Truth, Love and Justice: You Can’t Have One Without the Others

Posted on 03 August 2009

Pope Benedict’s recent encyclical letter is a dense read by anyone’s standards. It’s called “Charity in Truth,” and is a “social encyclical” in a long line of such letters in modern times.
No matter what topic the pope writes about,…