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Divine Word Missionaries have long history of serving Catholics in Bronzeville

When Divine Word Father Carl Gales looks out at the congregation at Our Lady of Africa Parish, 697 E. Oakwood Blvd., he sees familiar faces looking back.

Eastern Catholics share their culture, experiences at Chicago gathering

astern Catholics in the Chicago area, clergy and lay, gathered mid-summer on the University of Chicago campus to discuss the needs and good works of the church in their countries of origin and to start new, mission-minded relationships.

Pope Francis on tradition and the development of doctrine

Throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has shown that church teaching can develop. He has called for updates to the Catechism of the Catholic Church to make it clear that the death penalty is inadmissible and that both the use and possession of nuclear weapons are immoral. His teaching document on family life, “Amoris Laetitia,” offers a path back to the sacraments for divorced and remarried Catholics, opening a door that was previously closed.

Kentucky churches, communities work together to meet flood victims’ needs

Lori Helfrich, the parish life director at Mother of Good Counsel Church in Hazard County, Kentucky, had just come from volunteering at the food pantry that her parish helps support.

Highland Park parish holds listening session to help people heal

As the people of Highland Park continue to try to process and heal from the July 4 mass shooting that rocked their community, Immaculate Conception and St. James Parish held a listening session on July 26 where parishioners and the community could speak to a priest or a deacon about their experiences and have the opportunity for the priest or deacon to pray with them.

Pope brings apology to Arctic Indigenous communities

On a stage designed to evoke a “qammaq” — a traditional Inuit summer home built of whale ribs, sod and stone — Pope Francis again apologized to the Indigenous communities of Canada for Catholics’ complicity in breaking up their families and suppressing their languages.

Women religious hold monthly vigils to pray for homicide victims

The last Saturday of every month, a group of sisters from various religious communities gather at the site of a recent homicide to pray for peace and healing.

Parish honors music minister for her 62 years of service

Jeanette Dandurand was a newlywed in 1960 when she approached the pastor of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Parish in Posen and told him that she could help by playing the organ.

Pastoral Migratoria Institute continues to train other dioceses in immigrant ministry

Catholics working with immigrants in dioceses around the country gathered for a two-day virtual and in-person meeting of the National Pastoral Migratoria Institute at Catholic Theological Union on July 29-30 to learn about best practices in ministry and to focus on hope for the future.

Church leaders urged to be trailblazers in addressing systemic racism

When deadly, racially motivated violence erupted in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a Pittsburgh synagogue, a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and most recently in Buffalo, New York, Catholic Church leaders have responded.
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