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Politics 101: High school students help get out the vote

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Building America’s bridge:
Pilgrimage links Chicago, Mexico City
Cardinal George leads a delegation of Chicago Catholics and civic leaders to Mexico City in December.

More working poor request help from Catholic Charities
The poor will always be with us, Jesus said. But most people probably never thought they would be with us more than ever in booming economic times.

‘I’m not a hero ... It was just a thing I had to do’: Polish Holocaust rescuer honored at synagogue
For more than 50 years, Marisia Szul Diaczok's friends have invited her for every wedding, every bar mitzvah, holidays and just for fun. The weekend of Oct. 29, her friends invited her to be honored for what she did that brought them together, 58 years ago and a world away.

Black and Catholic in Chicago
Non pro schola, sed pro vita (Without scholarship, there is no life)
Chicago's black Catholic community, like its ethnic counterparts, has endured school closings and consolidations. Does the Catholic Church have at its heart a mission to keep schools open?