{"id":4517,"date":"2006-02-17T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/chicago-doings.html"},"modified":"2006-02-17T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T09:00:34","slug":"chicago-doings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/chicago-doings.html","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Doings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of things going on in Chicago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/custom\/newsroom\/chi-060215priestabuse,1,654530.story?coll=chi-news-hed\">Cardinal George has directed the Chancellor of the Archdiocese to to oversee a review of&nbsp; child abuse issues.<\/a> Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdiocese-chgo.org\/pdf\/021406\/cardinal_appointment.pdf\">statement from the Archdiocesan website (pdf file)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s &quot;Mission Chicago&quot; &#8211; a concerted revival effort which is going to make excellent use of one of the Archdiocese&#8217;s greatest gifts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordonfire.org\/fr_barron.shtml\">Fr. Robert Barron<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Barron will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdiocese-chgo.org\/mission_chicago\/mission_list.pdf\">preaching in several parishes throughout the Archdiocese (pdf file)<\/a>. This weekend there will also be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdiocese-chgo.org\/news_releases\/cff_06\/cff_011706.shtm\">Festival of Faith<\/a> at the convention center in Rosemont, from which Relevant Radio will be broadcasting live.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like someone&#8217;s head is in the right place &#8211; half the challenge of leadership is knowing the resources you&#8217;ve got available and <em>using them<\/em>. Looks like with this &quot;Mission Chicago&quot; &#8211; that&#8217;s been figured out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdiocese-chgo.org\/\">The Archdiocesan site has details.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of things going on in Chicago: Cardinal George has directed the Chancellor of the Archdiocese to to oversee a review of&nbsp; child abuse issues. 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