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Pope: Technology should serve friendships, not replace them

Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican’s Estate Ragazzi summer camp June 22, meeting with children and young people taking part in this year’s program and answering several questions.

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Three sisters send letters to Pope Leo with Chicago delegation

Much ado was made about Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s meeting with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 28 and the gifts he gave to the pontiff — including a Chicago Cubs hat for the famous Chicago White Sox fan.

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Updates from Cardinal Cupich

Cardinal Cupich shared the following letter June 12.

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Worshippers fill shrine chapel for St. Rita feast day

Worshippers fill the St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel, 7740 S. Western Ave., for the 119th novena and feast day Mass for St. Rita of Cascia. Known as the patron saint of impossible causes, St. Rita was a wife, widow, mother and Augustinian nun who bore the stigmata and died in 1457 in Cascia, Italy. She is also associated with roses. Worshippers received a rose before the Mass and it was blessed with a relic of the saint during the service. Augustinian Father Tom McCarthy, director of the shrine and prior-elect of the Midwest Augustinians, was the main celebrant for the Mass. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

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Archdiocese’s ‘Generation to Generation’ campaign nearing its goal

The Archdiocese of Chicago’s “Generation to Generation” campaign has almost reached its goal of raising $300 million to strengthen local parishes, spiritually renew parishes, support priests and assist vulnerable communities.

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Local theologians, experts welcome new encyclical on AI

Catholic theologians and experts welcomed Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” for its defense of the “grandeur” of humanity and its insistence that technology be put at the service of people instead of the other way around.
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Parishes continue streak of helping to build homes for others

More than 200 volunteers from seven south suburban Archdiocese of Chicago parishes built the framing walls for two houses on June 12 and 13, 2026, in the parking lot of St. Michael Parish in Orland Park that will benefit the Northern Indiana Habitat for Humanity chapter. The seven parishes have worked collaboratively to raise more than $20,000 for the housing project through donations. The two homes will be donated to families in need in Gary, Ind. The parishes involved were St. Damian (Oak Forest), St. Elizabeth Seton (Orland Hills), St. Francis of Assisi (Orland Park), St. George (Tinley Park), St. Julie Billiart (Tinley Park), St. Michael (Orland Park) and St. Stephen Deacon and Martyr (Tinley Park). The effort is in collaboration with Crossroads Mission. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

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