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Issue of November 24, 2002
Pope begins jubilee year
Pope John Paul II has had an epic papacy— one of the longest in history. It has spanned not only a generation, but a century and an era. It has witnessed the fall of communism and the rise of terrorism. The pope now begins his silver jubilee year— the 25th of his service— having survived an assassin’s bullets, epochal changes in culture and event in faith. In a special section, we remember his years of service- beginning, fittingly enough, in Chicago.
Chicago remembers
Pope John Paul II introduced a new style of  papacy 24 years ago when he boarded a plane for the Dominican Republic and began the first of his 98 foreign trips to 129 different countries. For Midwesterners the trip that mattered most came in 1979 and was highlighted by a stop in Chicago.
Neither rain nor snow nor ...
For Father Siedlecki, papal visit was one of many
For Father Edmund Siedlecki,  former pastor of Five Holy Martyrs Parish and retired director of Cardinal Stritch Retreat House in Mundelein, it helps to be Polish. In part, because of the connection, he has fond memories of the times he has been in the presence of Pope John Paul II.
The most-traveled pope
Vatican City (CNS) - At the  beginning the 25th year of his papacy, a landmark reached by only four of his predecessors, Pope John Paul II thanked God for his ministry and entrusted his future to the care of the Virgin Mary.
Bishops OK new norms
Clergy sexual abuse dominates fall meeting
Clergy sexual abuse of minors dominated discussions at the at the annual fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 11-14 in Washington.
Five months after approving the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” in Dallas, the bishops revised it and approved tightened-up legal norms designed to bind all U.S. bishops to implementation of that charter-and to pass muster with Vatican officials.
Lake Forest family built itself through adoption
Richard and Cecilia Jaworski already had two biological sons when they decided they wanted to expand their family. And they decided that adoption-of a child with some kind of special needs-would be the best way to do it. So, 32 years ago, they came to the Catholic Charities building at 721 N. LaSalle and met Michelle, a biracial toddler, and they brought her home.
Deacons at 30-class of ‘72 celebrates
Talk about constancy: J. Frank Marquez has served as a deacon at St. Pascal Parish, Chicago, for 30 years. It was his first-and only-assignment since being ordained in the first class of permanent deacons in the Archdiocese of Chicago. That group, the Class of ‘72, marks its 30th anniversary Dec. 10.
John Paul II’s pontificate changed pope’s role
 Passionist Father Donald Senior, president of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, told Catholic New World staff writer Michelle Martin that John Paul II’s quarter-century on the Petrine throne may have permanently changed the way the world sees the papacy.
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If a picture equals 1,000 words, we have only scratched the surface of the “new” Old St. Mary’s. Its origins make it the first church of any faith in Chicago, and from 1832 to 1871 it was the cathedral. 
