by edaday | Oct 1, 2020 | News Archives, Peace & Justice
During one of its recent site visits, Sr. Simone Campbell, SSS, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby noted for its Nuns on the Bus event, interviewed some Chicago area advocates for her regular bus blog: Br. Michael Gosch, CSV, director of...
by edaday | Sep 30, 2020 | News Archives
Kankakee attorney Dave Baron vividly remembers accompanying his youth ministry group to Pembroke — in 1999 — one of the poorest counties in the nation located 20 miles south of Kankakee. “I went to a community known for its poor conditions,” Baron says,...
by edaday | Sep 30, 2020 | News Archives
Parishioners at St. Viator Catholic Community in Las Vegas learned this week that Deacon Associate Mike Underwood will join the staff as a full-time deacon and pastoral associate. Deacon Mike and his wife, Kathy, are Viatorian associates. They met working with RCIA...
by edaday | Sep 28, 2020 | News Archives
It’s not often that St. Viator College makes the news. After all, the college closed in 1938 and Olivet Nazarene University now owns the Bourbonnais campus. Yet last week, a story in the Kankakee Daily Journal described a plaque that had disappeared, that...
by edaday | Sep 24, 2020 | News Archives
Viatorians live and work in 13 countries around the world, advancing their mission of “raising up communities where faith can be lived, deepened and celebrated.” One of those countries is the Ivory Coast, located in West Africa, where there is much unrest...
by edaday | Sep 23, 2020 | News Archives
Stop the presses! Not even a global pandemic could stop supporters of Cristo Rey St. Martin from celebrating the school’s successful mission. The 8th annual ELEVATE Festival and Fundraiser took place Friday, outdoors in the school’s parking lot. Guests...
