Chicago-based Catholic Extension launches reunification fund to help families at border

Catholic Extension announced June 21 it has established a Family Reunification Fund as "a response to the human tragedy unfolding on the nation's southern border" with Mexico.

Abuse allegation against Cardinal McCarrick found credible

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, said June 20 he will no longer exercise any public ministry "in obedience" to the Vatican after an allegation he abused a teenager 47 years ago was found credible.

July 8: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Cost of discipleshipThe “Cost of Discipleship” is the title of a famous book written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young Lutheran pastor and theologian who lived during the Nazi era in Germany. A brilliant and winsome man, he had spent some time studying at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

July 1: 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

As he grappled with an aggressive cancer, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin wrote a beautiful reflection on his experience titled “The Gift of Peace.” So deep was his faith that Cardinal Bernardin, despite being aware his life was ending, spoke of death as a “friend,” something he did not fear but could even embrace.

June 24: Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Recently I was in Louisville, Kentucky, for a graduation. My nephew’s wife, Monica, just finished nursing school and it was a joyful occasion for sure. What made it especially poignant were the difficult times Monica and her family suffered this past year — the loss of her brother in automobile accident and overcoming a serious medical condition.

Youth group members consecrate themselves to Mary

A group with a mission to evangelize young Hispanics in the United States now has 21 Chicago-area members who have consecrated their lives to Mary.

A reflection on the Irish referendum

I will confess that as a person of Irish heritage on both sides of my family, I found the events in Ireland recently particularly dispiriting. Not only did the nation vote on May 25, by a two-to-one margin, for the legal prerogative to kill their children in the womb, but they also welcomed and celebrated the vote with a frankly sickening note of gleeful triumph.

Art at St. Benedict the African reflects experience of black Catholics

In the 1970s, when Cardinal Joseph Bernardin asked Catholics in Englewood what they wanted the church in their neighborhood to look like, they said, “themselves.”

600 Catholic institutions declare support for Paris climate agreement

Caring for creation goes hand-in-hand with the mission of helping retreat-goers connect with God at the Jesuit Retreat House in Parma, Ohio.

Renew My Church: Mary, Mother of Mercy Parish formed

The Archdiocese of Chicago announced June 17 that the new unified parish that includes the current Queen of the Universe, 7114 S. Hamlin Ave., and St. Adrian, 7000 S. Washtenaw Ave., will be named Mary, Mother of Mercy Parish, beginning July 1.
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