Participants pray to end violence and promote peace during the ninth annual Sunrise Prayer Service and Mass at Oakwood/41st Street Beach, 4100 S. Lake Shore Drive, on Aug. 25. Worshippers gathered to pray for peace and the healing of families, schools and communities. The event is sponsored by the Black Deacons of Chicago.
Catholic hospitals take stock following shooting at Mercy The morning after a gunman killed a doctor, a pharmacy resident and a Chicago police officer at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, more than 300 members of the hospital staff gathered for a Mass celebrated by Bishop Joseph Perry.
Couple delivers Christmas toys to kids in Guatemala For the past 10 years, Deacon Freddie Palacios and his wife, Zoila, have been putting smiles on the faces of poor children living in their native Guatemala by delivering wrapped toys for Christmas.
Statement of Cardinal Cupich on the Mercy Hospital shooting Once again violence has struck our country. This time close to home at a place founded in 1852 to provide care for Chicago’s sick and dying.