Bill is a member of our Church and frequently writes for publication and for our Church. Here he features one Roman and two Eastern Catholic parishes in Chicago.

http://www.examiner.com/catholic-in-chicago/one-voice-many-faces-a-look-at-our-parishes

Thanks, Dan. Bill mentions that he'll be doing a series of these articles. Please post links when he does, for the benefit of those of us not blessed to live in Chicagoland.

Many years,

Neil

Bill is developing into a very valuable asset to the Kingdom through our Church. He's only thirty and not quite Eastern yet, but has a deep love for God and an eagerness to learn and have his heart turned and formed by the Holy Spirit. I will happily link his future articles. I suspect that he will be writing for the Eparchy someday.

St Columbanus is a very beautiful church that incidently has some association with the Capone family, who lived a short distance away at 7240 S Prairie. Al Capone's mother Teresina attended mass daily here, and my good friend Father John Frawley (age 92) knew her quite well and has attested to her being a very devout Catholic who was deeply concerned with the spiritual welfare of her infamous son. It has also been claimed by numerous former parishoners, that Al Capone personally paid for some of the church's furnishings including the pipe organ, but I have no doubt the archdiocese would strongly deny it.