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Archdiocese of Chicago announces new parish structures

As part of the archdiocese’s revitalization initiative, Renew My Church, the leadership of parishes in the Brighton Park and Calumet City groupings have been meeting to discuss the future church, parish and school structures for their areas. They submitted their feedback to the Archdiocese of Chicago and the final structures have been approved.

St. Florian Parish dedicates adoration chapel

Bishop Joseph Perry was the principal celebrant at the dedication of a new adoration chapel in honor of Cardinal Francis George and himself at St. Florian Parish, 13145 S. Houston Ave., on Sept. 16, 2018.

Holy Family Parish donates $103,000 to violence-prevention programs

The population of Inverness doesn’t have much in common with the populations of the city’s Austin and Auburn-Gresham neighborhoods, but they are all part of the Chicago area and all brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Newly combined parish celebrates inauguration

One of the archdiocese’s new parishes formed through Renew My Church celebrated its inauguration with a “fiesta week” Aug. 26-Sept. 2. San José Sánchez del Río Parish, which includes the churches of St. Philomena, 1921 N. Kedvale Ave.; Maternity BVM, 3647 W. North Ave.; and St. Francis of Assisi, 932 N. Kostner Ave., kicked off the week with a Mass inaugurating the new parish on Aug. 26.

Parish tends garden to feed those in need

A garden is a growing thing, developing and changing and bringing new life to its environment and to the people who tend it year by year. That’s certainly been the case with the parish garden at St. Paul of the Cross, Park Ridge, where more than 100 volunteers work together to raise close to 1,000 pounds of vegetables that are distributed through the parish food pantry and the Catholic Charities food pantry in Des Plaines.

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.”

Prayers and bears for unaccompanied minors

Chicago-area Catholics are hoping that unaccompanied immigrant children will feel the love that comes with the more than 1,300 stuffed animals collected by their parishes. “The message we are sending is to embrace these children,” said Lupe Partida of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 3200 E. 91st St., “to give them the sense of having encountered Jesus, who said ‘Let the children come to me.’”

Parishes march to protest violence

Memorial Day weekend is often among the city’s most violent times. While churches throughout the Chicago area were encouraged to hold anti-violence marches on Memorial Day weekend, Holy Cross-Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in the city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood had specific reason: to mourn the death of 16- year-old Angel Cano, who was gunned down May 21, 2013. The march took place May 24, 2014.

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