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Issue of July 22 – August 4, 2007
Greater use of Tridentine Mass may
‘promote unity’
In an effort to promote unity in the church, Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic letter July 7 allowing for greater use of the Tridentine Mass, the traditional Latin rite that predates the Second Vatican Council.
The pope’s letter, “Summorum Pontificum,” said the Tridentine Mass should be made available to those who desire it. Previously, parishes had to seek an indult, or permission from the bishop, before the Tridentine Mass could be celebrated.
Sunny day sundae
Camp program aims to teach, inspire kids
What do water by the bucketful, a human sundae and total devotion to the Lord have in common? A lot, on the last day of “Totus Tuus,” a kind of parish mission as day camp at St. Stephen Deacon and Martyr Parish in Tinley Park. The parish was the site of a pilot program for Totus Tuus, a faith formation and catechetical weeklong camp for grade-school children that is already in operation in the Diocese of Wichita and Archdiocese of Denver.
Program welcomes three priests from Latin America
The Archdiocese of Chicago said “bienvenidos” to three Latin American priests this month as part of a new pilot program to help them get acclimated to ministry in the United States. The five-day program aims to give priests coming in from Mexico and Central and South America an overview of ministry in the archdiocese and life in the United States. The priests were accompanied by Father Claudio Diaz, the director of Hispanic Ministry, and Bishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, episcopal liaison to the Hispanic community.
Rules of the road —
Back in mid-June the media called them “The Pope’s 10 Commandments for Drivers.” They were dismissed like they’d been borrowed from AAA. But when you read them in context with the Pontifical Council’s beautiful document that accompanies, “The Pastoral Care of Road Users,” you feel enriched. Never realize the scriptural aspects to maneuvering that SUV or Taurus? The text has some innovative ideas, including Jesus’ own words that he is “the way, the truth and the life.”
By the time you read this, I will likely be at least halfway through the seventh and last Harry Potter book.
I ordered “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” months ago, the better to have it delivered to my door on July 21. I’ve been waiting for ever since finishing “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” two summers ago. I got an early HP fix by seeing “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (the movie version of the fifth book) the day it came out.
Elaine Layden doesn’t get as many hugs as she used to. Now senior director of property management for Catholic Charities Housing Development Corp., Layden started at Catholic Charities as property manager for the then-new Frances Manor senior housing development 10 years ago. Then she moved to the larger Bernardin Manor. She misses the daily contact with residents, she says, but also enjoys the administrative aspects of the job. In her time with the agency, it has gone from housing 400 seniors to more than 1,300 in 18 buildings.
This parish, founded to serve the Irish in 1881, became the Black Mother Church of Chicago. By the 1920s the city’s population was divided by a color line. St. Monica, the nearby all-black parish founded in 1894, headed by the first African-American priest in the country, Father Augustus Tolton, merged with St. Elizabeth, whose white parishioners were moving away. St. Elizabeth’s school children today know the history of St. Mother Katharine Drexel’s Blessed Sacrament Sisters who taught at the school for generations, and the Divine Word Missionaries who have staffed the church since 1917.
