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Triumph in Toronto
If Woodstock was supposed to be a love-in, World Youth Day in Toronto, which some dubbed “Pope-stock,” truly fit the definition. “John Paul loves you!” is one message nearly 1,400 Chicago-area teens and young adults received July 23-28.

The Holy Father received the message that Chicagoans love him, too, during the epic July 23-28 event. One parish group got to the site of the papal welcoming ceremony early to hang their sign: “John Paul II, Chicago Loves You!” Cardinal George later told Chicago pilgrims that the Holy Father saw the sign and liked it very much.

Pope urges youths to follow Christ
Capping a week of prayer and celebration by more than 500,000 Catholic youths, Pope John Paul II urged the church’s younger generations to follow Christ and transform a world torn by hatred and terrorism.

Whipsawed stock prices and dour forecasts have displayed weaknesses not only in the American economy, but also in the U.S. economic system’s ethical underpinnings, according to experts in business ethics at Catholic universities.

Fixing the problems, they say, will take a lot more than stronger regulations. What’s needed is a reordering of corporate and societal values.

Summer apostolate
Would-be priests learn ministry from ground up
Jakub Olkiewicz and Matthew Walsh admit they felt a little nervous about spending the summer at Immaculate Conception Parish at 88th Street and Commercial Avenue.

Walsh, 19, from Rogers Park, and Olkiewicz, 25, who moved to the Northwest suburbs after emigrating from Poland, didn’t know how they would be welcomed in a community that’s predominantly Hispanic, with some African-American worshippers and a few older Polish people who tie the parish to its ethnic roots.