Faces of Faith: Jenny McCarthy on her Chicago, Catholic roots
The former Playmate of the Year talks about her faith background and evolving spirituality.
After being closed for a decade, Mother Cabrini shrine in Chicago reopens
The shrine features relics from the saint’s private room, including her desk, bed, some items of clothing and the wicker chair that she died in.
Catholic groups pitch in during Chicago teacher strike
Some Catholic groups are pitching in to help Chicago families with child care after the Chicago teachers strike shut down schools.
Health care workers unionize at local Catholic institutions
Anders Lindall: “Health care organizing [in the private sector] has been extremely difficult and very rare in the Chicago area."
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The Working Catholic: Exploring demographic changes in Chicago
(POSTED: 10/17/12) One afternoon in the early 1980s, legendary Chicago urban character Ed Marciniak (1917-2004) invited me to go for a walk in the South Loop. “The Loop is expanding,” he mentioned as we set out. “It is being repopulated,” he
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L’Osservatore Chicago: Nicholas Kristof as the next archbishop?
(POSTED: 10/10/12) When Joseph Bernardin was archbishop-designate for the Chicago Archdiocese, a PR person from DePaul University wrote him a letter, noting some of the ways that Bernardin could prepare himself for the job. Tim Unsworth especially
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Faces of Faith: Jenny McCarthy on her Chicago, Catholic roots
(POSTED: 10/8/12) Growing up in the West Lawn area on Chicago’s Southwest Side, Jenny McCarthy was a God-fearing Catholic school girl who played with Jesus, Mary and Joseph dolls, had a Jesus poster in her bedroom and once dreamed of becoming a nun
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After being closed for a decade, Mother Cabrini shrine in Chicago reopens
(POSTED: 10/5/12) A national shrine dedicated to Mother Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants who lived, worked and died in Chicago, has reopened in Lincoln Park after being closed for a decade. The National Shrine of Saint Frances Xavier Cabri
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Echoes from the Rectory: ‘Work teaches our young people to value others’
(POSTED: 10/3/12) If you received word that our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, was coming to town and he wanted to arrange his trip so that you could have a private audience with him, how would you feel? Could you find time to work him into your sch
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Horizons: Are we afraid?
(POSTED: 9/17/12) Dr. James Loder was teaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. On a free day, he, his wife, Arlene and their two daughters were driving near Kingston, New York. They noticed that an elderly woman was on the side of the road wit
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Catholic groups pitch in during Chicago teacher strike
(POSTED: 9/10/12) Some Catholic groups are pitching in to help Chicago families with child care after the Chicago teachers strike shut down schools on Monday. According to the Chicago Public Schools website, three Catholic groups are providing a f
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Echoes from the Rectory: The wise and the foolish
(POSTED: 9/6/12) Joshua set up a great stone at Shechem and called the people to remember their commitment on that day every time they passed that great pillar. Shechem was one of the places that the people of Israel could visit to renew their own fa
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The Working Catholic: Bill Veeck, a Catholic convert
(POSTED: 9/4/12) Who was a leader in the racial integration of the National Basketball League (the predecessor of the NBA), the first major professional league to integrate? Who was the first owner to integrate the American Baseball League? Who, u
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Health care workers unionize at local Catholic institutions
(POSTED: 8/20/12) More health care workers at religious-owned institutions are unionizing in the Chicago area. About 25 nurses at Maryville Academy’s Scott Nolan Hospital voted earlier this month to join the Illinois Nurses Association, and about 8
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Church Reporter: Life as a Jesuit novice in 1950
(POSTED: 8/13/12) For your reading pleasure, I offer this opening salvo of My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968, due out in September as a Blithe Spirit Publication. Five of us took the New York Central from Chicago to Cincinnati in August, 1950, arriving w
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Thomas More Society director on religion and the ‘misuse’ of government authority
(POSTED: 8/8/12) Peter Breen, executive director of the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a nonprofit law firm that focuses on anti-abortion, marriage and religious liberty, said the First Amendment is like a muscle. If not exercised, it gets flabby
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Horizons: On faith and learned optimism
(POSTED: 8/6/12) Several months ago, I was told that my position as director of pastoral care at The Clare, a continuing care retirement community, probably would not continue as new ownership took over operations. That began a long journey of ne
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Cardinal George, others react to Chick-fil-A controversy
(POSTED: 8/2/12) For some it was about religious freedom. For others the issue was gay marriage. Perhaps some just wanted a chicken sandwich. People came out in droves yesterday to Chick-fil-As in the Chicago area and across the nation for what was d
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The Working Catholic: Where is there a gift economy?
(POSTED: 7/31/12) I live in a Mexican-American neighborhood where it is considered an honor to be chosen as a baptism godparent or a special benefactor at a Quinceanera or wedding. These honors come with a significant financial “obligation.” Yet
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