Happy Friday! Just in case you spent your entire week watching Gilmore Girls on Netflix, here are a few things you may have missed: Let’s start with the...
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Alert: history nerds! More than two hundred years ago, Father Stephen Badin, the first priest ordained in this young nation, took a Bible with him on his...
Autumn is officially here, complete with slightly unpredictable weather, changing colors, and a sudden and inexplicable urge to eat hot dogs. So in case you...
It’s the last weekend of summer, and the weather is turning. So in case you spent this last week soaking in the last rays of sun before the next Polar Vortex...
At age 19, Rene Lima-Marin participated in the armed robbery of two video stores. He was later arrested, convicted, and in 2000, he was given consecutive...
Sure, we tip our waiters, valets, and our bellhops. Tip jars on the counters of coffee shops, diners, and even take-out joints have become more and more usual...
At the end of the second week of September, autumn has suddenly and rapidly descended on the city of Chicago. In case you are in a similar situation, and...
Domestic violence has been a taboo subject. No one can really know what is going on in the mind of an abuse victim without truly being there. The complexity of...
The Vatican has published the full list of participants for the much anticipated October Synod of Bishops on family life. And, not surprisingly, most of them...
I have an acquaintance who is currently experiencing homelessness. "Tom" (not his real name) often hangs out near a park that my family frequents...
