Dear Pope Leo XIV

Dear Pope Leo XIV Greetings from your hometown of Chicago! We are the students of St. Mary of the Angels School in Bucktown, and we are so excited to write to you. First and foremost, congratulations on becoming our new Holy Father and the first Pope from Chicago—we...

Honoring our merciful father

We honor our parents not because they give us what we want but because they represent our merciful God who gives us his loving and life-giving Spirit: What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an...

Restoring The House Of The Lord

Please consider an extraordinary gift this Christmas to help us continue to Restore this House of the Lord. We need to rebuild the stairs and front façade, which have both deteriorated significantly since the emergency stabilization work we did a few years ago. The...

Mercy and Forgiveness

Pope Francis reminds us of the importance of forgiving others: Jesus does not say, “Blessed are those who plot revenge.” He calls “blessed” those who forgive and do so “seventy times seven” (Matthew 18:22). We need to think of ourselves as an army of the forgiven. All...

Objectivizing Adam and Eve’s Fruit

Objectivizing Adam and Eve’s Fruit At the pinnacle of creation, God created our first parents: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,...

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