Issue of July 5th – July 18th
When a baby dies
One couple’s experience helps others know they can bury their child after a miscarriage
Ignatius Maria was buried May 15 at St. Joseph Cemetery in River Grove.
The baby, who died before reaching 12 weeks of gestation, was taken from the mother’s womb surgically after dying unexpectedly. The parents, Christine and Nicholas Lund-Molfese, do not know whether it was a boy or a girl. But they do know the baby was human, and they wanted to make sure the baby received a proper and respectful burial.
Grief from miscarriage turns into special ministry
Karen Novak was 23 weeks and two days pregnant with twin girls when she miscarried in April 2008.
The Lockport woman had been getting prenatal care at Loyola University Medical Center because the twins, named Abigail and Danielle, were sharing a single amniotic sac, which put them at high risk. When they died, she had a chance to see and to mourn them before they were buried at Good Shepherd Cemetery in Orland Hills.
It’s not easy being green
Sin of envy can consume us and leave us lost
In the famous song, “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” Kermit the Frog, the lovable character from Sesame Street, laments the fact that, when you’re green, people pass you over because you blend in with so many other ordinary things. Kermit admits to feeling envious of the “flashy sparkles in the water or the stars in the sky” that attract so much attention.
‘Keeper’ raises human-rights questions
My Sister’s Keeper,” the muchloved story by novelist Jodi Picoult, is now a movie. It looks death straight in the eye and comes up blank. As it should. The film’s conclusion is that we don’t know much about death or the afterlife, but we do know about love.
S. Side parish feels gifted with grads of lay ministry program
Father Peter Campos found five very active women parishioners when he became pastor of St. Kevin, 105th Street and Torrence Avenue, two years ago.
Providing a break for stressed parents
Baylee, nearly 2 years old, is trying out her words on child care worker Maggie Piggee, demanding ice chips for her stuffed toy frog.
Nuns mark 150 years here
In 1859, the Civil War was less than two years away; Amherst and Williams colleges played the first intercollegiate baseball game; the Virgin Mary had appeared at Lourdes the year before; James Duggan becomes Chicago’s bishop; strikebuster and sleeping car magnate George Pullman moves here from New York state.
‘Got Bookz?’ — Thomas Markowski , the arch’s Polish coordinator for multi-cultural parish evangelization, wonders if anyone wants to divest themselves of the two-volume set of “A History of the Parishes of the Archdiocese of Chicago,” published in 1980. They are aka the “ Blue Books.
Ah, nature.
Who wouldn’t want to spend a little time communing with the great outdoors, wondering at the splendors of creation, perhaps composing a line or two of poetry (“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree,” and so on)?
That’s the fantasy.
