by edaday | Jan 3, 2023 | News Archives
As Pope Benedict is mourned throughout the world, Fr. Mark Francis, CSV, Provincial, reflects on the time he met Pope Benedict — in 2005, the same year he was elected to the papacy — and of their brief but memorable conversation. “It took place at...
by edaday | Dec 30, 2022 | Meet a Viatorian
Fr. Thomas von Behren first met the Viatorians in 1967 when he was a student at Griffin High School in Springfield, IL. His teachers would have a profound effect on him, leading Fr. von Behren to join the community in 1971 and spend the bulk of his 45 years in...
by edaday | Dec 29, 2022 | News Archives
Beth Cassidy Nabors calls it her “foundation,” meaning the moral compass she learned from her Catholic education at St. James School in Arlington Heights and at Sacred Heart of Mary High School in Rolling Meadows, which later merged with Saint Viator High...
by edaday | Dec 28, 2022 | News Archives
Christmas decorations remain up during these 12 days of Christmas, and before the feast of the Epiphany, at Viatorian parishes and schools around the Province of Chicago. At each location, along with the vivid red poinsettias, Christmas trees and sparkling lights, it...