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 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...
by edaday | Dec 28, 2022 | News Archives
Christmas decorations remain up during these 12 days of Christmas, and before the feast of the Epiphany, at Viatorian parishes and schools around the Province of Chicago. At each location, along with the vivid red poinsettias, Christmas trees and sparkling lights, it...
by edaday | Dec 27, 2022 | News Archives
Fr. Thomas von Behren, CSV, has been with Cristo Rey St. Viator College Preparatory High School in North Las Vegas, since the announcement of the school, back in 2016, through this academic year, having seated all four classes of the school in its first four years. In...
by edaday | Dec 21, 2022 | News Archives
Dear friends, As Christmas approaches, I have been reflecting on how much the birth of Jesus was dependent on ordinary people responding in faithful ways to the challenges of their lives. While we read the story of the Nativity, we often forget that Mary and...
