Cover Story: Reflecting on life Powers play: One-man show offers up lessons in 'what's important' Pacing the stage, picking up family mementos and musing on the meaning of life make up the bulk of John Powers’ entertaining one-man show, “Life’s Not Fair ... So What?”, now in previews at the newly refurbished Lakeshore Theater on the North Side.

Cardinal George heads to Rome to resolve U.S. sex abuse policy
Cardinal George will be one of four U.S. bishops who will travel to Rome in the next two weeks to work with Vatican officials to fine-tune the sex abuse policy approved by American prelates in June.

The Vatican must formally approve the rules on how to handle the cases of child sex abuse by clerics for them to become binding on all U.S. dioceses, but a two-page letter from Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops released Oct. 18 said the Vatican saw possible areas of confusion and questions of interpretation in the norms.

Find the names and the stories of the hundreds of religious sisters, priests and brothers who have dedicated themselves to the physical, intellectual and spiritual well-being of people in the Chicago-area and around the world. Many started long before the Second Vatican Council and have seen myriad changes to the church and their congregations, but they have continued to offer their best for the good of those around them.

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Priest’s job: helping
others listen for God’s call
Father Joseph Noonan, named the archdiocese’s director of vocations earlier this year, works with Sister of St. Joseph Peter Mary Hettling, director of the Office for Vocations to promote calls to the priesthood and religious life, in general, and, as vice president of recruitment at Mundelein Seminary, to find men to study for the priesthood for the archdiocese in particular.

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Observations by Tom Sheridan
Abused by the media
The agony of the church’s clergy-sex abuse scandal continues to grind on. The problem—as well as the solution—rests with the church, of course, but as the crisis has unfolded in secular media, there has been criticism of some of the coverage.

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