Join us for this very important presentation, of interest to every parent today!

Buy your tickets now!  Admission tickets are $75 per person (increases to $100pp on September 18th), while game and drink tickets are $5 each.
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Help the students of our sharing parishes - St. Moses the Black and St. Benedict the African by participating in our school supply drive.  To make it easy, we've created an Amazon wish list, which you can find here.

​Divine Mercy welcomes Jodi Reuter as our new principal of Sacred Heart School!  Jodi brings a wealth of experience with her, a wonderful energy and strategic vision. Her leadership skills and innovative thinking, in combination with the legacy of Sacred Heart School, its strong foundation, leadership team, dedicated staff and committed parents positions us well to take the next steps into the future.
 
Blessings on Jodi and the Sacred Heart School community as we venture forth!
 

Join us RAIN or SHINE!  Weather permitting, we'll be in the garden behind the St. Philip Convent (just west of the Church).  There is lots of room for the kids to run around.  Inclement weather?  No problem!  We'll gather in the Sunroom and the Library in the Convent.   Join us!

All are welcome!  Stay tuned for more summer dates and locations!

We want to clearly state again, as we have repeatedly told the Attorney General (AG), we will post on our weblist clerics belonging to religious orders or other diocese who served in a ministry of the Archdiocese and have been the subject of a substantiated allegation of sexual abuse of a minor, if the responsible order or diocese provides that information.
It appears the AG’s office received information during its investigation about substantiated allegations involving clerics not on our weblist and they did not bring that information to our attention. It was for this reason our statements expressed concern that we learned of many of these names for the first time when the AG Report was released.
The AG Report listed 125 clerics whom they say should be added to the weblist. Five are already listed. We have previously communicated to the AG that 57 of the individuals they name were not clerics or they did not serve in a ministry of the Archdiocese of Chicago. We are looking at the remaining 63 more closely to determine whether any of them should be added to the weblist. We will also follow up on any new information the AG has and will provide us.
If the AG received confirmation of substantiated cases from other dioceses and religious orders during the course of his investigation, we ask him to share that information with us so we can determine if the individuals involved served in a ministry of the Archdiocese of Chicago. In such cases, the names of those individuals will be posted on our weblist.
Given our commitment to provide accurate and complete information to the public and to our parishioners we cannot, on our own and absent that information, post the names of individuals for whom we do not have access or a right to the access of their files. We cannot act in a way that is contrary to how the Church is structured or that undermines the credibility of the information we share.
Despite many discussions of this topic with the Attorney General, the Report creates the impression that the archdiocese has authority over or is responsible for religious order members. We do not. We have done our best to verify information given to us by these separate church organizations. Religious orders run 4 universities, 15 hospitals, many shrines, churches and other ministries within Cook and Lake counties. They are required to have child protection policies and procedures in place and to have their operations certified by groups such as Praesidium. They do not report to us except when individual members seek permission to administer the sacraments.
One final point. We have reported every single allegation of child sexual abuse by a cleric known to us. In 2002, we cooperated with the office of then-State’s Attorney Richard Devine to report all allegations found in an extensive search of historical files, and we have reported every allegation since.
This is the opposite of hiding.
We believe the Attorney General needs to make clear to the public and our parishioners that there was nothing discovered in his investigation that contradicts this assertion.