A church to remember here, per its web site.

Mere blocks from Bryn Mawr red line stop, arguably more Catholic than the Pope.

Play that “Hail, holy Queen,” a.k.a Salve Regina, on this page, and be returned, all ye Romans of a certain age, to the religious experience of your youth.

And be introduced, you others of any past experience, to classical beauty in a sacred place.

Yes, he could (and get away it), and yes, he did.

Note also this at end of story:

Meanwhile, a Catholic school in Macon, Ga., is facing a federal discrimination lawsuit from a former teacher whose employment was terminated in 2014 after the school found that he would be legally marrying his same-sex partner, the Cardinal Newman Society reported.

When gummint comes knocking, don’t open your door. Maybe you’ll get away with it, but probably not.

. . . at a press conference on June 18, when the encyclical was announced.

This is a watershed moment for the church, for humanity and for the planet, which Pope Francis calls our common home. It’s time for the church to be bold — to speak about major issues — and to achieve a new level of relevance in people’s lives.

Missed this at the time, but wow. Second only to the coming Day of the Lord.

That “new level of relevance” too. Higher and higher with our relevance factor.

— Note: It’s how public people talk that gets me, as in my coming book, Illinois Blues: How Oak Park-based state office-holders talk to people. — 

Received Catholic Press Assn. award posthumously at recent convention.

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   Editor of Catholic New World in Chicago receives CPA’s Bishop John England Award on behalf of late Cardinal George

   Joyce Duriga, editor of the Catholic New World in Chicago, receives the annual Bishop John England Award June 24 from Timothy Walter, executive director of the Catholic Press Association, on behalf of the late Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago. The cardinal, who died earlier this year, was recognized “for distinguished service in exercising and defending the First Amendment rights of Catholic newspapers,” during the 2015 Catholic Media Conference in Buffalo, N.Y. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World)

He was praised by the CPA awards committee:

He regularly addressed issues of religious freedom in his column for the Catholic New World. These columns were often reprinted in diocesan newspapers around the country and regularly received more than 10,000 page views on…

Fr. Robert Barron does this up nicely. It’s about the ability to see something as one thing, not another, in effect to love a sinner (he does not speak of sin) while deploring the sin:

What strikes me so often as I listen to the public conversation regarding moral issues is the incapacity of so many to make the right distinctions.

Some of the muddiest water surrounds the concepts of love/ hate and tolerance/intolerance. In the spirit of Sokolowski, I would like to make what I hope are some clarifying differentiations.

He does so, along the way noting the phlosophical roots of this inability (low in his column):

Once the sense that there is objective good and evil has been attenuated [reduced to not much at
all], as it largely has been in our society, the only categories we have left are psychological [I’d specify
emotional] ones. And this…

Meanwhile, following yesterday’s Matthew 8, we have today’s verses 8 and following, and the Gadarene swine, who paid a high price for being too close to demons. (Were sent tumbling into the sea, where they perished.)

Lesson here for us all. Whatever we mean by demons, the farther away the better.

The Donald of Oak Park, its senator in Springfield, where he’s high in the ranks of the Ruling Party and is smooth-as-silk boss of Oak Park’s Democratic Party organization, took to the podium at Oak Park’s Carleton Hotel on a glorious day in late June of 2013 for his annual report to the Business and Civic Council. 

It was time to explain things to bankers, business owners and operators, and other issues-aware citizen consumers and taxpayers with skin in the game to varying degrees and/or psychic income from allegedly progressive political victories and enactments.

The state was in a state of turmoil, confusion, and all-around hyperactivity. The two legislative chambers were at odds over a pension solution. The governor, a one-time gadfly with Oak Park roots, was soon to cut off legislators’ pay checks to punish them for inactivity.

For the Donald, however, it was what-me-worry time. “The…