“I had a sense early on that I had a call to this vocation,” Medow said.

While some married Protestant ministers had been ordained as Catholic priests after World War II, and Pope Paul VI opened the ...

And the priests invited him ... Because he already knew the local leader of the Diocese of Joliet, he called to set up a meeting with Bishop Joseph Imesch. "When I told him, he started to laugh ...

At age 14, Fr. Brian Barker became friends with Robert Francis Prevost while at a school in Michigan. Years later, Prevost ...

Bishop Hicks of the Diocese of Joliet echoed that sentiment ... When he was asked about a gay priest, Pope Francis responded, "Who am I to judge?" Pett says his community knew then that Pope ...

He also permitted priests to give a blessing at same-sex ... The Archdiocese of Chicago covers Cook and Lake counties, the Diocese of Joliet includes Will and DuPage counties, the Diocese of ...

“As Catholics, all of us priests, deacons ... encouraging people to attend a remembrance Mass to be held by the Diocese of Joliet — which includes DuPage, Kendall, Will, Grundy, Kankakee ...

Pope Leo XIV has ties to the St. Louis area from his time in the Order of Saint Augustine as well as a special connection to a priest in the Belleville Diocese ... in the Joliet area or travel ...