Issue of February 14 – February 27
Old St. Mary’s getting new school building in Loop
More families moving in wanting Catholic education for children
Old is about to get new. Chicago’s original parish, Old St. Mary’s, 1500 S. Michigan Ave., will soon welcome a new school building capable of hosting approximately 350 students.
How can parents enhance Lenten season for kids?
Don’t forget Ash Wednesday Feb. 17
In spite of the somewhat intimidating themes of penance, prayer and fasting, Lent offers a wonderful opportunity to teach kids about the central mysteries of the Catholic faith.
Personal experiences lead deacons to take on violence in city
The basement of Holy Angels Church, 615 E. Oakwood Blvd., was only half lit when Deacon Pablo Perez walked in and sat down at a table with two others — Deacon LeRoy Gill to his left and Deacon Richard Johnson across the table. Immediately, the men began sharing the personal stories that brought them together one January afternoon to talk with the Catholic New World.
Mother McAuley High School students build processor, offer promise for Haitian school
The two schools could not seem more different, more disconnected by the world’s social order.
Spotted on Chicago’s South Side, Mother McAuley High School hosts approximately 1,700 female students and typifies America’s middle-class life. Smiling faces and bright futures blanket the school’s West 99th Street campus.
St. Cletus rallies to honor memory of parishioner
When Erin Potts completed her first round of chemotherapy in October 2007, dozens lined the street with candles and banners to welcome the LaGrange resident home. A touching moment of solidarity, an inspiring moment of support, said those who were there, most members of St. Cletus Parish in LaGrange.
Butler: The burden and dignity of the vocation to priesthood
In the diocesan seminaries where I have taught there are photos of each ordination class, or even of each individual priest in the class, hanging on the walls. It is a permanent record. The class photo remains there even if the priest dies, becomes a bishop, transfers to a religious order or leaves the active ministry. Like the indelible mark he receives at his priestly ordination, his photo stays in place.
Mayan instrument helps transform life of parish
Father Bruce Wellens found a unique way to bring out the best in young people who live in his inner-city neighborhood: playing the marimba. The Claretian missionary discovered the beauty of the percussion instrument when his religious community sent him to Guatemala to learn Spanish.
‘Unselfish love is really, really hard’
Just in time for St. Valentine’s Day, “Dear John” is a love story based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks (“A Walk To Remember,” “The Notebook”). Judging from the popularity and solid romantic weavings of these earlier novels- to-movies, “Dear John” is going to be another favorite.
Parish potpourri — St. Margaret Mary Parish (W. Chase) has the new ordinary of Milwaukee, Archbishop Jerome Listecki, preaching their Lenten mission, 7 p.m. March 1-3. . . . St. Mary’s (Buffalo Grove) varsity cheerleaders are Illinois Elementary School State Champions. The seventh- and eighthgrade girls competed in Peoria, Ill., against 15 other statewide teams.
Bringing a new baby home is a little like falling in love all over again.
There’s the sense of infatuation — the besottedness that makes new parents coo over every little part of their baby. The cute nose, the pretty ears, the darling little toes.
