by edaday | Oct 2, 2019 | News Archives
It has been two years since a gunman opened fire at a Las Vegas music festival, killing 58 and wounding more than 400 others. On the second anniversary, school children at St. Viator Parish School in Las Vegas resumed what they did the morning after the shooting: they...
by edaday | Sep 30, 2019 | News Archives
Br. Don Houde, CSV, was among the first class of novices to study at the Province Center when the Viatorians opened the building in 1951 on former farmland in Arlington Heights. Consequently, he is an excellent resource on its many paintings, sculpture and other...
by edaday | Sep 26, 2019 | News Archives
Excitement is in the air at Colegio San Viator in Tunja, Colombia, where Viatorians and surrounding bishops celebrated its third anniversary as a Viatorian school. A ceremony marking the anniversary drew Fr. Robert M. Egan, CSV, Superior General of the Viatorians as...
by edaday | Sep 25, 2019 | News Archives
The tradition of paying tribute to first responders at a Blue Mass, goes back to the mid-1930s in Washington DC. At St. Patrick’s Church in Kankakee, Fr. John Peeters, CSV, pastor, brought the tradition to the parish a little more than 10 years ago, and it...
by edaday | Sep 23, 2019 | News Archives, Peace & Justice
In a world of ever increasing, religious-based hatred, the Children of Abraham Coalition, finds its message of tolerance and acceptance more important than ever. For the eighth year, they hosted a potluck dinner for area families — as a way to promote interfaith...
by edaday | Sep 19, 2019 | News Archives
For more than a dozen years, parishioners at St. Patrick’s Church in Kankakee have marked the halfway point to their patron’s feast day, with their annual Half Paddy Fest. It’s always a hit. “Because St. Patrick’s Day is too much fun to...
