Deacon Jack News Today

Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Howard Brown beams with pride when he thinks of his love for his country and family, but also the countless students whose lives and careers he helped shape as a longtime Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps instructor.

“I was sitting in the yard, playing and I [saw] him walk there with that suit on and that was me. That was me. I mean, right then. I wanted to be a soldier. That was it.” At only eight …

WMU Jazz Band Performs at State Championships; Humphrey Honored

Deacon Jack Hasson of the Catholic Foundation of Greater Philadelphia contemplates the resurrection of Jesus, and the call to participate in God’s divine plan to bring hope, life and love to others, to be the hands and feet of Christ.

Chicago cobbler pivots to making religious goods during pandemic Feb 18, 2021 catholic news service Larry DeAngelo shines a cross using a shoe machine at Als Shoe Service in Mount Prospect, Ill., Jan. 13, 2021. (Credit: CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic.) When the pandemic forced many people to work from home last spring, business at Als Shoe Service in Mount Prospect, outside of Chicago, almost completely dried up overnight. MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. — When the pandemic forced many peopl...