Name changes to the following parishes were approved by the Archdiocesan Presbyteral Council Oct. 15: • Divine Infant Jesus and Divine Providence Parish, Westchester, to be renamed Mary, Mother of Divine Grace Parish • Holy Ghost and Sts. Mary and Jude Parish, Riverdale and South Holland, to be renamed Christ Our Savior Parish • Our Lady of Knock and Sts. Andrew and Victor Parish, Calumet City, to be renamed Jesus, Shepherd of Souls Parish • Sacred Heart and St. Eulalia Parish, Melrose Park and Maywood, to remain Sacred Heart and St. Eulalia Parish • Sts. Barbara and Louise de Marillac Parish, Brookfield and La Grange Park, to be renamed Holy Guardian Angels Parish • Sts. Simeon and Domitilla Parish, Bellwood and Hillside, to be renamed Queen of All Nations Parish • Immaculate Conception and St. Michael Parish, Chicago, to remain Immaculate Conception and St. Michael Parish.
Renew My Church: New round of unified parishes began July 1 July 1 ushered in big changes to wave 3 of the Renew My Church process, with unifications and other structural changes happening across the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Archdiocese accelerating Renew My Church discernment process As a result of the financial implications of the pandemic, the archdiocese is accelerating the Renew My Church process. It is adding more parishes to the wave 4 discernment process and will finish the process a year earlier than planned.
Book examines history of local parishes with Mexican faithful Deborah Kanter, who grew up in Oak Park and is a history professor at Albion College in Michigan, wrote “Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican” (University of Illinois Press, 2020) after spending time in Mexico doing research for her doctorate, and then returning to Chicago and finding the same style of devotion in some of its parishes.