by Veronica Szczygiel Losing a loved one hurts. The hurt is slightly appeased, however, if the death is expected. Take my grandmother’s passing in March. She had been suffering from cancer for several months, and her prognosis was not hopeful. Although her death was still difficult for me because I loved her so much, I […]
by Luz Amada Muy Palaguachi I came to the United States from Ecuador at age 15 to reunite with the members of my family who had traveled to this country in search of a better life. The change was very difficult because of the language and way of life, which is very different from my […]
by Steven Kent Waiting for “the recovery” as something that is all but inevitable may be little more than misplaced hope. “This time it is different” was the much scorned optimistic line used by those who tried to deny historic economic cycles when touting their latest scheme, be it the medieval Holland tulip bulb craze […]
by Gabriel Marocchi Today my eyes have been filled with emotion, my grandmother is 100 years young, still carrying a bright mind, not many wrinkles in her face, a heart full of life and more hair than me. When I approach her bed to say goodnight and she grabs me and gives me a blessing and a […]
by Veronica Szczygiel We give thanks for the freedoms we gained when our Founding Fathers declared independence from England, but we must also remember the perseverance it took Jefferson, Franklin and others to organize a democracy. Just like these Founding Fathers, the Founding Fathers of our Christian Church had to undergo hardships. First, the teacher […]
by Jerry and Anna Parisella Dear Mr. Vice President: We have been enthusiastic supporters of your and President Obama’s fair and wise domestic and foreign policies. There is one policy, however, that is unsupportable and is considered of such long-term, precedent-setting consequence that it trumps all other issues – the HHS Mandate. We are respectfully […]
by Gene Rossi “You can call me Father Joe if Rapkowski is hard to remember or pronounce. But that’s the name over the confessional you’ll enter if you wish to confess in Italian.” That was something older parishioners from Italy never expected to hear especially from a Polish priest. But that’s how Father Joe Rapkowski […]
by Sister Constance Carolyn, L.S.P. Meet Anna. She is 91 and has been a resident of our home in Chicago for eight years. We knew Anna for several years before she came to live with us. We often saw her at Holy Name Cathedral, where she spent her days serving as the unofficial sacristan. But […]
by Stephen Kent The announcement earlier this month of the discovery of a new subatomic particle caused a good deal of excitement among particle physicists (which most of us are not) and some interest among others for being termed the “God particle” (which it is not). Confusing? Particle physics has never been known to be […]
Bby Father John Catoir Throughout his career as a community organizer, President Barack Obama is said to have used Saul Alinski’s book, “Rules for Radicals.” Some say the book proclaimed the principle of divide-and-conquer. This was one of Alinski’s strategies in the struggle to gain political power. By turning the poor against the rich, the […]
