Clergy appointments for March 17, 2024, issue

All appointments are effective July 1.

Vatican says abortion, surrogacy, war, poverty are attacks on human dignity

Being a Christian means defending human dignity and that includes opposing abortion, the death penalty, gender transition surgery, war, sexual abuse and human trafficking, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said in a new document.

Pope prays people will experience, share Easter joy

Like the women disciples who discovered Jesus had risen from the dead and ran to tell the others, Christians should be filled with such joy at Easter that they cannot help sharing it with others, Pope Francis said.

The work of Jesus is being fulfilled in our ministry

“Today, this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” The “today” that Jesus refers to in the Gospels does not refer to a particular 24-hour period or a particular yesterday in which the word “today” was spoken. Rather it is our “today,” this moment in which we hear that word spoken.

Spring training

I spent three and a half days in March in Arizona, watching baseball, going to museums and walking around on desert mountainsides with my oldest daughter, who took me on the trip as a Christmas present.

Assisted suicide legislation introduced in Illinois General Assembly

A bill recently introduced in the Illinois General Assembly would make it legal for a physician or advanced practice nurse to prescribe an array of drugs to someone diagnosed with a terminal illness who wants to end their life.

St. Bede School in Ingleside to close despite massive fundraising

Father George Koeune, pastor of Our Lady of the Lakes Parish and St. Bede School in Ingleside, announced on March 21 that St. Bede School would close at the end of this school year because of low registration for next school year.

St. Sabina unveils statue of Jesus weeping over gun violence victim

Just days before the Easter Triduum, Father Michael Pfleger and St. Sabina Parish unveiled a bronze statue of Jesus weeping over the body of a man with bullet holes in his back on March 25.

Jazz pianist, composer Mary Lou Williams focus of Loyola talk

Mary Lou Williams isn’t exactly a household name, not like Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk or Charlie Parker, all of whom she worked with.

Pope asks nations to repeal laws discriminating against women

Governments must eliminate laws discriminating against women and help guarantee women’s human rights, Pope Francis said.
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