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Bread Truck ministry takes food to those on the margins

For the past 13 years, Anthony Brown has delivered lunch bags of food six days a week, driving the Port Ministries Bread Truck to people who gather at eight stops in Back of the Yards, Englewood, New City, Gage Park and Canaryville.

St. Maria Goretti students learning kindness this school year

On National Kindness Day, Nov. 13, students at St. Maria Goretti School in Schiller Park teamed up to help those less fortunate by making “kindness bags” filled with essentials like toothpaste, socks, deodorant and soap. Then they took those bags home to hand out to those they meet who are in need.

Food pantries help others during holiday season

Is your parish having a food drive this year? What about your school, or service organization like Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts? You’re not alone.

Soup kitchen has fed hungry in Uptown for over 40 years

At 3:30 p.m. on a Friday, the basement of St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, 4827 N. Kenmore Ave., is already buzzing with activity. There are volunteers chopping vegetables for soup and salad. Another is opening cans of black beans — a main ingredient for tonight’s soup — and others are putting rolls and slices of bread in baskets and placing them on the long tables that occupy the floor of the multipurpose room.

Catholics spend Thanksgiving with neighbors on the margins

Volunteers work in the kitchen preparing an ethnic Thanksgiving feast for those in need at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, 2300 W Le Moyne St. on Nov. 23.

Monument marks graves of unknown, unborn, indigent

On July 13, Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Chicago welcomed 109 souls for burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery, 2755 W, 111th St. They were the last group to be buried in 300 plots donated to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office in 2012 following a backlog on burials.

Catholic Cemeteries puts works of mercy into action

Staff at Catholic Cemeteries for the Archdiocese of Chicago have taken the Jubilee of Mercy to hea...

They take Jesus to those living behind bars
Deacon Pablo Perez draws on his own life experiences in his ministry at Kolbe House

The reporting for this story was completed last year. The inmates mentioned in the story are no longer in jail. Their names have been changed to protect their identities. On a sunny spring day...

‘We’ve been schools of mercy for many years’

You can ask just about any Catholic school principal what his or her students are doing to spread mercy in the world. Just make sure you have a comfortable chair and maybe a cup of coffee, because the answers tend to go...

Abandoned baby buried with love

The funeral for Angel Antonio was a far cry from his short life. The infant boy was found dead in...

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