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Parish launches Peace of Christ campaign to address violence

When a parishioner was randomly shot in the middle of a weekday at a gas station, it rocked the members of St. Benedict the African Parish in Englewood.

Academy of St. Benedict students walk for peace in community

Students at the Academy of St. Benedict the African, 6020 S. Laflin Ave., gathered as one group for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic struck to pray for peace in their community on Oct. 21.

Christ Our Light Parish offers Mass for first responders

Chicago police officers and other first responders have the love and support of Christ Our Light Parish, Father David Simonetti, the parish’s pastor, said.

Precious Blood holds weeklong effort to promote peace

In the early afternoon of Sept. 23, people could be seen on the grounds of Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation in Back of the Yards walking a labyrinth and painting peace rocks.

Belmont Cragin parishes unite to demand peace, justice

On the sweltering afternoon of Aug. 28, with temperatures in the 90s with high humidity, more than 80 parishioners from St. John Bosco, St. James the Apostle and Sts. Genevieve and Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr parishes processed through the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, stopping to pray at locations where people were killed by gun violence.

6300 S. Bell Ave.

One of the benefits to my work as editor and journalist for Chicago Catholic is visiting many neighborhoods in Cook and Lake counties because the church and its members are there.

Our Peace Plan awards $105,000 to six parishes

Six parishes in Vicariate III have received grants totaling $105,000 through Our Peace Plan, a vicariate-wide effort led by Auxiliary Bishop Robert Lombardo and Linda Weaver, who came up with the idea and donated the grant money.

St. Jerome parishioners pray for peace in community

More than 200 people gathered at St. Jerome Church Aug. 6 for a procession through the Rogers Park neighborhood to pray for peace.

Prayer service remembers slain Officer Ella French

About 400 people filled Milwaukee Avenue in front of the Chicago Police Department’s District 16 headquarters in Jefferson Park on the evening of Aug. 11 for a prayer service led by Father Dan Brandt, director of the department’s chaplaincy.

‘Be seen in your neighborhood protecting your children’

The Black Catholic Deacons of the Archdiocese of Chicago hosted their 11th annual sunrise service Aug. 7 to pray for the protection of the community’s children before the school year starts.
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