Echoes from the Rectory: Living out of time
Modern American life has conflated the end of time with everyday time. We are living each day in a panic as though it is the last day.
Horizons: Leaving and bereaving
Perhaps God does not restore physical life to people we have lost, but God invites all involved in loss to new life, eternal life and healing.
Church announces fundraising effort to shore up schools
Cardinal George announces new push to raise $350 million to help religious education in Cook and Lake counties.
Musings in Ordinary Time: Recalling Father Greeley
Priest, who died last week, wrote the book on what it means to be a Chicago Catholic.
Well-known Chicago priest dies
Andrew Greeley, prominent priest and novelist-professor, dies, leaving mixed legacy.
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Echoes from the Rectory: Living out of time
(POSTED: 6/20/13) “With the end of the Easter season and the special feasts that are celebrated at the end of it, we now return to Ordinary Time until Advent. This is the longest stretch in the liturgical calendar. I am not sure there is anything o
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Horizons: Leaving and bereaving
(POSTED: 6/10/13) I had a cousin whom I never knew. His name was Ronnie, the only son of my mother's sister, Ag, and her husband, John. Ronnie died four years before I was born. He had a rare form of childhood kidney disease. I was told that before h
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Church announces fundraising effort to shore up schools
(POSTED: 6/6/13) Many Catholic schools in the Chicago area -- particularly in the inner-city -- have been suffering mightily, trying to stay afloat as enrollments sink and revenues shrink. The answer too often when such problems arise? Close the s
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Musings in Ordinary Time: Recalling Father Greeley
(POSTED: 6/3/13) Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, 85, priest, novelist, sociologist, blindingly enthusiastic Chicagoan, died in his sleep May 29. He had been in failing health since 2008, when he fell and hit his head after snagging his clothing in a car door
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Well-known Chicago priest dies
(POSTED: 6/1/13) Andrew Greeley was a prolific author, as well as a sociologist, journalist, critic and, most of all, priest. In Chicago religious circles, he was about as close to a rock star as it gets. But for his fame and, yes, fortune, he
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The Working Catholic: Jackie Robinson’s story is religious tale
(POSTED: 5/20/13) The events depicted in the movie “42” are relatively recent ones. Yet most young adults and many middle-aged people don’t know much about segregation in our country. We know something about the Civil War. We know something abo
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Horizons: Ma, Jesus and Heaven
(POSTED: 5/13/13) I have been trained in Adlerian psychology. Adler and his disciples did not emphasize the importance of dreams (as Freud did). Rather the pioneers and contemporary Adlerians stressed the importance of memories. They said that we rem
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Church Reporter: Books, crooks and other half-minded thoughts
(POSTED: 4/29/13) Is there room for half-baked ideas, even half-vast ones, in a church column? Let's see. * Praying for peace is a good idea, but for an "end to violence" or even the specific "end to violence in Chicago"? Really? Who is kiddi
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Garry Wills to Chicago priest: You read history backwards
(POSTED: 4/23/13) A priest named Robert Barron has dismissed as “preposterous” my book, Why Priests? Preposterous not here and there, on some points, but everywhere and in everything. His case is easy to make, given his method. He reads history b
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Chicago cardinal shows solidarity with Boston
(POSTED: 4/18/13) Chicago Cardinal Francis George wrote a letter to his counterpart in Boston expressing shock and sadness over the bombings there that claimed several lives and injured more than 100 this week. "I want to assure you that I and t
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Echoes from the Rectory: The Church is not yours or mine
(POSTED: 4/15/13) “I love the Easter season because it gets me all pumped up. After forty days of Lent, I am ready to sing alleluia and experience the joy of the Risen Christ. This year I feel even more positive because we have our new Holy Father,
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Musings in Ordinary Time: Building walls and moats
(POSTED: 4/8/13) “It’s somewhat fashionable these days to describe oneself as ‘spiritual but not religious,’” writes Francis Cardinal George in his most recent New World column. It’s becoming equally fashionable to critique that descrip
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Horizons: Jesus and all of us
(POSTED: 4/5/13) "He Is Risen!" That stark acclamation is on an Easter card received from friends this week. I deliberately left the card on my desk to keep me focused on the meaning of Holy Week and this wonderful feast. Let us take a few moments to
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The Working Catholic: The importance of not standing by
(POSTED: 4/1/13) After the first Big Ten Commandments, God delivered many more. Among them (Leviticus 19:16 in NABRE) is this: You shall not “stand by idly when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the Lord.” This commandment provides the the
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New pope speaks of walking “in the presence of God”
(POSTED: 3/15/13) On Pope Francis’ first full day as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, he “emphasized church advancement in his first Mass with the cardinals who elected him pontiff a day earlier.” "When we don't walk, we are stuck,” th
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