A brighter future
Immigrant students get tuition OK
Sandy, a 19-year-old community college student, knows what she wants to do.

She wants to go to a four-year college, then graduate school, and eventually work as a psychologist.

A 2002 graduate of Lane Tech College Prep, she knows she has the brains and the will to do it. But this year, even with her two part-time jobs, there’s no way she could afford the tuition.

Carol A. Kolberg: “They’re questioning. ... It’s that whole formative stage. If you wait too long, you’re almost late.”

Once a white frame church served farm families and vacationers in this Northwest corner of Lake County. Today’s English Gothic brick edifice designed by McCarthy, Smith & Eppig in 1941 seats 400. Permanent homes have displaced most barns and silos but the old parish cemetery remains.

There are often misunderstandings in the way the church is governed, especially when such governance is compared with our everyday experience. Archdiocesan experts in the Code of Canon Law explain how - and why - church law developed and how it functions.