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Cardinal Cupich visits St. Hilary for Catholic Schools Week

As part of Catholic Schools Week, Cardinal Cupich led a prayer service at Padre Pio Church, 5600 N. Fairfield Ave., with students at St. Hilary School on Jan. 31, 2025. The cardinal talked with students about vocations and gave the teachers a blessing during the service. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

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Cardinal Radcliffe reflects on synod during parish event

Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe said the solution to overcoming polarization in the church and in wider society is for people on all sides to learn to talk to and listen to one another with respect, something that was demonstrated in the 2023 and 2024 sessions of the synod on synodality.

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St. Ferdinand students pack 300 lunches for people in need

Students at St. Ferdinand School took time out from their classes on Jan. 27 to make 300 packed lunches to feed people in Chicago over the next 24 hours.

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Students at Chicago Jesuit Academy learning culinary skills

On a Tuesday afternoon in January, about 20 students in fifth through eighth grade at Chicago Jesuit Academy, 5058 W. Jackson Blvd., crowded around Chef Sebastian White at a table in the cafeteria for their weekly culinary lesson.

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Hope amid suffering leads to God, pope says in message for world's sick

While the Holy Year 2025 refrain, "Hope does not disappoint," can be difficult for those suffering from illness to embrace, Christians are called to recognize God's closeness even in moments of weakness or despair, Pope Francis said.

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