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Archdiocese ordains 14 men to diaconate Deacon ministry includes caring for poor, performing baptisms and marriages, conducting funerals
Cardinal George ordained 14 men as permanent deacons on May 19 at Holy Name Cathedral.
Latest News
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When church is too serious, it loses its loving, tender side, pope says
, Catholic News ServiceVatican City — The Catholic Church needs to revive its loving and tender side, which gets lost when the church becomes too serious, Pope Francis said.
Degrees conferred, certificates awarded at University of St. Mary of the Lake
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Church needs believers with zeal, not couchpotato Catholics, pope says
Catholic News ServiceVatican City (CNS) — The church doesn't need couch-potato Catholics, it needs believers with "apostolic zeal," willing to preach the uncomfortable words of Christ, Pope Francis said. "And if we annoy people" with this zeal for Christ, then "blessed be the Lord," he said in his daily morning Mass homily May 16.
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Annual audit shows number of abuse allegations in church dropped in 2012
Catholic News ServiceWashington (CNS) — The annual audit of diocesan compliance with the U.S. Catholic Church’s “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” found a drop in the number of allegations, number of victims and number of offenders reported in 2012.
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Miguel and Martha Gutiierrez hand out postcards after Mass atOur Lady of Guadalupe Church on the south side on May 12. The parish held a special event for immigrant mothers who have experienced separation from their loved ones and single mothers eligible for U- visas and VAWA. On Mother's Day, volunteers collected hundreds of postcards as part of the efforts from the "Together as Brothers and Sisters" campaign to urge elected officials to support and pass new immigration and reform legislation. (Karen Callaway/Catholic New World)
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Senior stepping back but will still be around CTU
Don’t say that Passionist Father Don Senior is retiring as president of Catholic Theological Union.
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Gosnell’s conviction shows ‘ugliness of abortion’
Philadelphia — Dr. Kermit Gosnell may have been convicted May 13 of murder at his Philadelphia abortion clinic, but “nothing can bring back the innocent children he killed, or make up for the vulnerable women he exploited,” said Archbishop Charles Chaput.
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Hannah Cohn, a freshman from St. Ignatius College Prep finishes the Illinois High School Association Class 3A 200-meter dash finals at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Il. on May 18, 2013. (Karen Callaway/Catholic New World)
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This ‘Gatsby’ film is indeed great
The latest film rendering of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is done by the great master of the spectacle Baz Luhrmann (“Strictly Ballroom,” “Moulin Rouge!,” “Australia”).
The Cardinal’s Column
Ordinations to the priesthood 2013
On May 18, I ordained 10 deacons to the priesthood for service in the Archdiocese of Chicago (see Pages 14-15). They had been prepared for this step by the grace of God, by their years in the seminary and by the support and prayers of family and friends, many of whom were present in Holy Name Cathedral for the ordination Mass. During that Mass, I preached the following homily, reflecting on the ordination rite and on passages from the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 20; from St. Paul’s first letter to Timothy, chapter 4; and from the Gospel according to St. John, chapter 21.
Columns
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5 Minutes with Father
By Dolores MadlenerSpreading the gospel, from Gaudalajara to Chicago
He is: Scalabrini Father Fernando Cuevas Preciado, pastor of Santa Maria Addolorata Parish. He’s served in San Jose, Calif., and southern Mexico. Ordained in his home parish, Christ the King , in Gaudalajara, Mexico, in 2002. He came to Chicago in 2010.
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Perspectives on the Scriptures
By Father Patrick O'MalleyGreatest host: Our link to each other is Jesus in the Eucharist
Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi): June 2
Gn 14:18-20, 1 Cor 11:23-26, Lk 9:11-17
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Family Room
By Michelle MartinOrdinary Time
The great season of Easter is over, and the church is once again in ordinary time. Inside the walls of the parishes, vestments and altar cloths have gone from white to green, just as the grass and the trees and the plants have begun to assume their summer colors. Students are either leaving school for the long summer break, or looking longingly out the windows as they enter the homestretch of the academic year. People in the working world might not get the summer off, but enough of them take time away that even the rush hour traffic dies down a bit.
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Church Clips a column of benevolent gossip
By Dolores MadlenerThose flowers of the fairest —
It’s still May. When was the last time you saw a home May altar? (Definition: a small shrine dedicated to the Blessed Mother.) Dayton University’s website says one of the first mentions of decorated home altars to Mary was in France in 1842. And St. Louis de Montfort, “counted the decoration of Marian altars a chief exercise of Marian devotion.” To anyone unfamiliar with the custom, the arts and crafts website CatholicIcing.com lists May altar essentials: a Mary statue, lots of blue, lots of flowers, Mary holy cards, candles and rosaries. And it’s not really an “altar.” I know someone who decorates a kitchen windowsill as a May altar.
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Faith and Culture
By Father Robert BarronThe breakdown of moral argument and gay marriage
In his classic text “After Virtue,” the philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre lamented not so much the immorality that runs rampant in our contemporary society, but something more fundamental and in the long run more dangerous; namely, that we are no longer even capable of having a real argument about moral matters.
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Deb Cerone from St. Anne Parish in Barrington, Ill gives "eskimo kisses" to her godson, third-grader Will Winemaster during a lunch break at grandparents day at East Lake Academy in Lake Forest on May 10.
Students in all grades celebrated the day with their grandparents and special people with classroom visits, a Mass and May Crowning. (Karen Callaway/Catholic New World) -
Former Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Academy teachers, Anne Murphy, left, who taught reading to 6th, 7th and 8th graders from 1975-1985, reaches over Jeanne DeVriendt, center, who taught english to 6th, 7th and 8th graders from1963-1989, to share the sign of peace with Betty Martens, right, who taught 4th grade from 1962-1970 during a Mass celebrating the 125th anniversary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church on May 18. Cardinal George was the main celebrant at the Mass which was attended by administrators, faculty and students. (Karen Callaway/Catholic New World)
