Photos from around the Archdiocese of Chicago at the beginning of the 2013 school year.
Sophmores at St. Rita High School, Nick Demma, David Lorimer and Dan Smith, sell laminated prayer cards with blessed rose petals as a fundraiser in memeory of a classmate who passed away last year. They sold the cards on the last night of the annual novena and Mass for the feast of St. Rita, May 22, at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel, 7740 S. Western Ave.
Photo: Karen Callaway / Catholic New World