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Catholic Schools Week looked different, still festive

Schools in the Archdiocese of Chicago celebrated Catholic Schools Week this year by highlighting their Catholic identity and showing appreciation to all the members of their communities, just as they always have, but things did look a little bit different in 2021.

Cardinal presides at funeral Mass for mother, four daughters who died in a fire

Cardinal Cupich and Father Esequiel Sanchez presided over the funeral Mass of five members of the Espinosa family, four young girls and their mother on Feb. 10, 2021 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines. The mother and four girls died in a house fire on Jan. 27, 2021. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

March for Life Chicago switches to car procession, rally during pandemic

The March for Life Chicago kicked off Jan. 23, 2021, with a car procession that moved through downtown Chicago as a live digital rally takes place from the Chicago Loop. On Jan. 17, 2021, the March for Life Chicago held a Moving the Movement Tour at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein on Jan. 17, 2021. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Cristo Rey St. Martin students help feed those in need in Waukegan

In response to the Waukegan area’s financial challenges due to the pandemic, Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep and the Northern Illinois Food Bank hosted a community drive-through food distribution event Jan. 30, 2021 in the school's parking lot. Around 80 students were joined by staff, families and friends of the school in distributing enough groceries to serve over 1,500 families. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Parishes with PADS programs find new ways to help the homeless

Parishes across the Chicago area had been sheltering homeless people for more than 30 years through PADS when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. Faced with suddenly being unable to accommodate overnight guests, many of them pivoted to providing food instead. On Jan. 29, 2021, volunteers from St. Stephen Deacon & Martyr Parish in Tinley Park delivered and served homemade meals those in need and living at the Baymont Hotel in Calumet City through the PADS program. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Moving the Movement pro-life tour makes stop in Mundelein

The March for Life Chicago held a Moving the Movement Tour at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein on Jan. 17, 2021. The socially distanced event had participants stay in the cars and listen to speakers who spoke from a stage on the grounds. People in cars tuned into a local radio frequency to listen to speakers. Following the event, the nearly 300 cars took part in a car procession around Mundelein. Participants also brought over 20,000 diapers that were donated to Aid for Women. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Latino immigrant community responds to COVID crisis

Volunteers distribute food during a monthly giveaway at Epiphany Parish, 2524 S. Keeler Ave. on Oct. 20, 2020, The food giveaway was started during the pandemic in partnership with Catholic Charities to aid the Latino community that has been hard hit by COVID-19. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Cobbler pivots to religious goods to help save business

Larry DeAngelo works in his shop Al's Shoe Service in Mount Prospect on Jan. 13, 2021. When the pandemic hit, DeAngelo's business dried up because people were working from home and didn't need shoe repairs. In an effort to save his business, his daughters, Angela and Alexandria, encouraged him to sell the handmade leather crosses he had been giving to people for years. After a post on Facebook, the effort went viral and now the family sells handmade necklaces, key chains, rosaries, bracelets, chaplets and "fur baby" crosses to raise money to support the business. Al's Shoes was founded by Larry DeAngelo's father 83 years ago. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

2020: When things closed down, Catholics reached out

The year 2020 was unlike any in recent memory with the pandemic changing life for everyone. But when things closed down, Catholics across the archdiocese reached out to help their neighbors in need. Here is a look back at some of the happenings around the archdiocese in 2020. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Fragments of Cave of Nativity donated to Shrine of All Saints

The Shrine of All Saints located within St. Martha Church in Morton Grove is home to over 3,000 relics of saints and holy men and women of the church. The shrine is the lifelong work of Senior Pastor Father Dennis O’Neill. In December 2020 the shrine received fragments of stone from the Cave of the Nativity in Bethlehem. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
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