The Catholic New World newspaper and www.catholicnewworld.com are the official publications for news and events of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Other websites use similar names but are not affiliated with the archdiocese.
Issue of July 18 – July 31
Annual Catholic Appeal doing well
The Annual Catholic Appeal is about halfway through its 2010 campaign, and so far, the response has been very good.
Survey says emphasize evangelization of youth
Results of an online survey conducted in the spring gave the archdiocese’s Strategic Planning Steering Committee new reasons to focus evangelization efforts on teenagers and young adults, said Father John Canary, archdiocesan vicar general and chairman of the committee.
Deacon formation program revamped
The Archdiocese of Chicago is revamping its formation program for permanent deacons to bring the academic component more in line with the formation for priests.
Incarnation Parish gets Stanley Cup
Mike Gapski has been a faithful parishioner at Incarnation Parish in Palos Heights for 20 years or so.
But he has been with the Chicago Blackhawks for longer.
So when the head athletic trainer for the NHL champion Hawks got his day with the Stanley Cup June 30, he decided to share it not only with family and friends, but also with his parish family.
Arlington Heights parish rallies around Foundation for Children in Need
Arlington Heights is about as far from rural India — both in distance and in lifestyle — as one can get.
Tucked into Chicago’s northwest suburbs, Arlington Heights is quaint and idyllic. With its youth soccer games, ma-and-pa stores and historic downtown, the village seems to have dropped off a Normal Rockwell canvas and onto the Chicago-area landscape.
From wounded to healed: Forgiving and being forgiven
Jesus makes several no-nonsense statements about the absolute necessity of forgiving those who hurt us. And he links our ability to do so with the health of our relationship with God (“If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions”).
The Mass is the prayer of Christ to his Father
Every culture has its proper way of communicating and expressing what it believes. Every culture has its own way of speaking, and so it is with Christians.
Exploring the priest in art
On the tails of the Year for Priests, a colorful, rich coffee-table book has been released in the United States that offers a visual meditation on priesthood.
There’s a Catholic app for that
There’s an app for that” has become a popular marketing campaign from Apple for the iPhone, but did you know “There’s a Catholic app for that”?
Documentary shows humanity in war
Restrepo” is the name of new documentary and the surname of a medic with the U.S. Army’s Second Platoon in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border. Although we barely meet him, he becomes the centerpiece of the platoon’s 15-month deployment and of the documentary.
It’s slightly different than Mundelein Seminary training: “Overall, I feel OK with my performance in the two-mile run test (237 out of 300).
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Never was a baby so beautiful, but her mother was glad to see her asleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said that, or words to that effect, and it’s true.
Babies sleep with the faces of angels, all light and peace and calm. Like everyone else, their sleep has its active periods. For Teresa, that’s when her thumb finds its way to her mouth, she rolls toward her side and maybe even talks a bit of gibberish.
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He is: Father Paul Stein, ordained in 2001 at age 26 at Mundelein Seminary. He has been pastor of St. Sylvester Parish in Humboldt Park since 2007. First Catholic school he attended was St. Mary of the Lake University/Mundelein Seminary.
Youth: “My home parish was St. Hubert’s in Hoffman Estates. Dad was a sales rep and Mom went to work later to help us through college.” He has an older sister and a younger brother, both married.
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