This is not just good news, but very good news. Archbishop Cupich has appointed Deacon Alfred Coleman II to serve here at St. James. July 1 is the date the appointment takes effect, and so he and his wife, Avis, will be formally introduced to the parish at both of the masses on Sunday, July… Read More »

Well, that didn’t work out quite as planned… but even so it worked out pretty well. The plan, as announced earlier during mass and in the bulletin, was to have a Parish Council election in May. Three members of the current council were scheduled to leave it, and so we were looking for volunteers to… Read More »

The CBS news show “60 Minutes” doesn’t have theme music but a theme sound: the steady ticking of a clock. Here at St. James, now and at least through the summer, we could do a lot worse than adopt that theme sound as our own. Time and times, schedules and waiting, these things are concerns… Read More »

We are at a strange moment (to say no more) when we come to our annual celebration of Mother’s Day and the most shown video tape of a mother in action and the most commented on mother-child image is that which involves a mother slapping around her teenage son, and doing so with such energy… Read More »

Every year, every parish in the Archdiocese of Chicago has a number of mandated “special collections.” Parish priests are not overly fond of these for a variety of reasons: although all of them are very worthy causes, there seem to be so many of them, and some of them seem to have so narrow an… Read More »