Health update 10/04/09 from downtown Chicago Father Greeley still has rigorous therapy sessions three mornings a week. He is working hard and continues to make progress in physical, speech, and occupational therapy. His family and friends are always near-by and very hopeful. We are sure he will continue his progress. It is often a long [...]

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The moment during the Democratic convention was astonishing. In my imagination I fell on my knees and muttered the Bible prayer appropriate when one has witnessed a miracle: “Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, secundum verbum tuum in pace!” (“Now, O Lord, you may dismiss your servant in peace!”) Simon, the holy man in the temple, [...]

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The typical article written about Chicago politics by a journalist from somewhere else tells us as much about this city as does the too-long-by-an-hour “Dark Knight.” You come into the city, talk to some of the approved journalists and political outsiders (the so-called independents), clip stories from newspaper archives, and begin to write. Thus American [...]

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