by edaday | Jan 5, 2023 | News Archives
Despite a reflection piece that ran last week in the Kankakee Daily Journal, St. George Church in Bourbonnais is alive and well, as parishioners wrapped up their yearlong 150th anniversary celebration and look forward to a bright future. The news story that ran on...
by edaday | Jan 3, 2023 | News Archives
As Pope Benedict is mourned throughout the world, Fr. Mark Francis, CSV, Provincial, reflects on the time he met Pope Benedict — in 2005, the same year he was elected to the papacy — and of their brief but memorable conversation. “It took place at...
by edaday | Dec 30, 2022 | Meet a Viatorian
Fr. Thomas von Behren first met the Viatorians in 1967 when he was a student at Griffin High School in Springfield, IL. His teachers would have a profound effect on him, leading Fr. von Behren to join the community in 1971 and spend the bulk of his 40-plus years in...
by edaday | Dec 29, 2022 | News Archives
Beth Cassidy Nabors calls it her “foundation,” meaning the moral compass she learned from her Catholic education at St. James School in Arlington Heights and at Sacred Heart of Mary High School in Rolling Meadows, which later merged with Saint Viator High...