For more than 40 of his more than 60 years of priestly ministry in the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei as it is now known, Father Richard "Dick" Rieman was a fixture in the archdiocese. Born in Chicago in 1925, a son of the late John and Catherine (Collins) Rieman. He entered the United States Navy after high school and was a flyer during the Second World War. On returning to the Windy City, he worked as an on-stage productions crew and at the Greta Chicago Railroad Fair (1948-1949).

Father Gerard L. Dorgan, a former professor of English Literature at Cardinal O'Connell Seminary, Jamaica Plain, and St. Clement Hall, Brighton; and a professor of homiletics at the theology department of St. John Seminary, Brighton, died after a protracted period of declining health. He had just turned 86 in October.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Congress was busy in 2019, but the House and Senate were often at cross purposes with each other. The Republican-led Senate spent much of its time voting on seating federal judicial nominees. By early December, 170 of them had been approved since Donald Trump became president in January 2017.