Commentary

March 18, 2020

By Cardinal Blase J. Cupich

Claiming our common humanity

On March 13, based on guidelines from local health departments, I announced that until further notice all liturgical services in our parishes would be suspended after Saturday evening, March 14, and all schools operated by the Archdiocese of Chicago would be closed beginning March 16. These are not decisions I made lightly.

March 18, 2020

By Father Donald Senior, CP

April 5: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

With Palm Sunday we begin Holy Week, the climactic point in the church’s liturgical year, with its solemn celebration of the death and resurrection of Christ.

March 4, 2020

By Kathleen Donahue-Coia

The importance of volunteers

Each year on Ash Wednesday, members of Catholic Charities Board of Advisors and Junior Board are invited to an evening of reflection in our St. Louise de Marillac Chapel at the St. Vincent Center on LaSalle Street. This year we collected socks and underwear for our Pope Francis Ministries, celebrated Mass, distributed ashes and shared a simple meal together.

March 18, 2020

By Michelle Martin

All together now

People in Italy are singing and playing music from balconies in an effort to provide hope and human contact to their neighbors who are under quarantine as part of the response to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

October 9, 2019

By Bishop Robert Barron

Talking with skeptics on Reddit

I just finished my second dive into the Reddit AMA world. One of the most popular websites in the world, Reddit is a forum for all sorts of online conversations and presentations.

February 6, 2019

By Father James Keenan, SJ

Doing virtue in Rome

I arrived here in Rome two weeks ago. I will be living and writing my columns for Chicago Catholic for the next seven months here.

April 25, 2018

By Don Wycliff

Writing the script of our lives

I recently attended a workshop on trauma and emotional resilience in children for people who work in the child-welfare system. The keynote speaker kept coming back to one theme: Each of us must write the script of his or her own life.

December 18, 2019

By Kerry Alys Robinson

Wonder

Our family was enjoying dinner on Christmas Eve before bundling up for midnight Mass at St. Thomas More Chapel at Yale University. Christopher and Sophie were tiny but precocious. Advent had been full of lengthy discussions during which their innately inquisitive selves delved ever more deeply into the practicalities of Santa Claus and his primary, global responsibility.

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