When the Chicago Archdiocese announced the merger in 2022, many St. Bernadette’s parishioners were disappointed. Some had grown up going to that church, but despite entreaties to remain open and a petition to save the neighborhood church, the move marched forward.
Timothy Berryhill was a Blackhawk helicopter pilot with the Illinois National Guard before joining St. George Catholic Church in Tinley Park, where he was inspired to enroll in seminary. He was ordained May 18 at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.
Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests.
Parents of students enrolled at an elementary school in Flossmoor are calling for the school’s management to take a stronger stance against racism after its first Black principal received hate mail. Felicia Clotworthy was brought in as principal for Infant Jesus of Prague Catholic Elementary School in June 2023, Lynnnette Wright, whose son attends the school, told the Daily Southtown. But six months later, a letter addressed to Clotworthy from an unnamed sender and dated December 31 used a racial slur to address the school official. “We know there have been incidents at Infant Jesus […]
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Coexistence and cooperation between Jews and Palestinians needed because each group’s safety and freedom is inextricably tied to the other, rabbi says.
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St. Christopher School in Midlothian is celebrating 100 years as a community, along with a retiring nun who’s been there for 50 of them.
On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
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