Each year the Catholic Church offers its people a spiritual boot camp of sorts in the season of Lent. It is a time to focus on our relationship with the Lord and double down on our practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving — or start them anew. Chicago ... See more
With Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent just around the corner, Catholics are beginning to think about how they will observe the penitential 40-day period. Setting aside a time in anticipation of Easter that is modeled on Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in... See more
When visitors step off the elevator on the lower level of Division 11 at Cook County Jail, the first thing they notice are the large, colorful murals that grace the cement block walls. The second thing they notice is the tantalizing smell of food cooking.... See more
Loyola Academy freshman Rosie Quinn is bald. She’s been bald since she was 2½, when she was diagnosed with alopecia, a condition in which the immune system attacks hair follicles. While another kid may have hidden their baldness or been embarrassed by it,... See more
Eight hundred thirty-four. That is the number of habits that Conventual Franciscan Brother Augustine Kelly has made over almost 50 years of serving as a tailor for his community. Brother Augustine, who ministers at the National Shrine of Maximilian Kolbe ... See more
