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BVM Sister Agnes Jean Groff, 74, died Dec. 23 at Caritas Center, Dubuque, Iowa. Born in Kansas City, Mo., she entered the BVM congregation in 1948. Sister taught in Chicago at St. Charles, 1951; St. Jerome, 1965-70; and St. Eulalia in Maywood, 1955-61. She also taught in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas.
Dec 21, 2008 · Between 1958 and 1965, 69 new grade schools, 15 new high schools, 2 seminaries (Quigley South and Niles College) were built, and 30 parishes established. He also was a supporter of the Second Vatican Council. The most compelling problems facing this leader of Chicago’s Catholics concerned civil rights.
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Taught for 41 years. Dominican Sister Dorothy (Louis Marie) Ferguson, 91, died May 21 at the Dominican Life Center, Adrian, Mich. She spent 41 years ministering in education in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Turbo, Kenya. In the Archdiocese of Chicago, she taught at St. Columbanus (1931-32; 1933-34) and Regina High School, Wilmette (1960-69).
Pollard: What makes a Catholic cemetery distinctive is that the signs of our faith are present all throughout the cemetery. In church law, they refer to a sacred place and they describe two focuses of a sacred place; one is a church and one is a cemetery. It is a place where we place crosses, statues, we’ll place rosary paths; we’ll place ...
Sister Ladislas served in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, New York and Illinois. In the Archdiocese of Chicago, Sister Ladislas ministered in the culinary arts at Ss. Faith, Hope and Charity, Winnetka, (1959-61), and as a teacher’s aide at St. Basil (1975-76).
Nov 8, 2009 · Catholic New World/Darrell Harmon. He is: Father Joseph Curtis, pastor of St. Mary of Vernon in Indian Creek, where he once served as associate pastor. Ordained at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, in 1969. Family life: The second youngest and only boy in his family. “Our age span was 20 years between the oldest and youngest.
