Chicagoland Our Lady of Perpetual Help celebrates centennial Cardinal Cupich celebrated a special Mass in honor of the centennial of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Glenview on Sept. 14, 2019. The theme for their celebration was “100 Years of Grace” which parishioners plan to honor by initiating a year of practical and spiritual acts of service to the community.
Chicagoland St. Peregrine shrine offers solace to those with cancer For over 25 years, pilgrims from the Chicago area and beyond have visited Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica, 3121 W. Jackson Blvd., to pray for the intercession of St. Peregrine, the patron saint of cancer patients.
International Irish church confirms 1989 miraculous cure of woman at Knock shrine The Catholic Church in Ireland has confirmed that a woman who was seriously ill with multiple sclerosis experienced a complete healing of all her symptoms at Knock shrine in September 1989.
U.S. Annual Marian pilgrimage draws hundreds to abandoned town in Pa. About 500 pilgrims came to a small church on the side of a Pennsylvania mountain Aug. 25 to pray for peace. They gathered at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church in Centralia, which overlooks the remains of an area mostly evacuated more than 30 years ago because of a mine fire. The church, built on rock, still stands.
Chicagoland Young adults learn about Scripture through Catholic, Jewish lenses On the evening of Aug. 21, 18 people gathered in the West Loop. They were students and young adults: some Catholic, some Jewish, some neither.
Chicagoland Panelists examine ‘human costs, moral implications’ of migration crisis Facing the challenge of the migration crisis will require voices and actions taken up in solidarity with migrants across the globe, said a speaker at a Sept. 11 dialogue on immigration at Georgetown University.
Chicagoland Cemeteries to host replica of Vietnam Memorial Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Chicago will host a half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and a traveling museum about the Vietnam War Sept. 26-30 at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, 1400 S. Wolf Road, Hillside.
Chicagoland Little Sisters of the Poor celebrate 150 years in the US Members and friends of the Little Sisters of the Poor gathered at St. Joseph's Home in Palatine for a Mass of thanksgiving Aug. 30, 2019, the feast day of St. Jeanne Jugan, the community's founder. They were celebrating the 150th anniversary of the community in the United States.
Chicagoland Celebrating 50 years of Misericordia and Sister Rosemary Connelly When Mercy Sister Rosemary Connelly walked into Misericordia Home in August of 1969, it was a facility for children up to age 6 with developmental disabilities on the South Side of Chicago.
Vatican Pope Francis to create 13 new cardinals in October Pope Francis announced he will create 13 new cardinals Oct. 5, choosing prelates from 13 different nations as a sign of “the missionary vocation of the church that continues to proclaim the merciful love of God to all men and women of the earth.”
U.S. Meet some angels who appear in the Bible “In my old age ‘angels,’ as I call them, have come to me,” a 95-year-old woman named Erminia told Pope Francis during his March 2015 visit to Naples, Italy. Her angels included “young and not-so-young people,” she explained. They “help me, visit me, support me in my daily struggles.”