
BY: Sophie Carson
Go to a Catholic Mass anywhere in the world, and it’ll be nearly identical. Steadfast rituals and beliefs for hundreds of years: that deep-rooted sense of tradition is what has sustained parishioners like Milwaukeean Margaret Balistreri through the demolition of her Italian-American community’s spiritual home — twice.
“Our church is gone, but we’ve taken the important things: our traditions, our faith, our memories, our prayer life, our music,” she said. “In the long run, life goes on. We haven't been abandoned. We’ve grown.” So she didn’t despair last year when crews tore down St. Rita on the east side, where Margaret married Anthony Balistreri and where she attended school as a girl. Instead she championed it, serving on the committee to direct the rebuild and assuaging other parishioners’ hesitations about change.
SOURCE: https://eu.jsonline.com
Millie Santilli saw the writing on the wall for St. Brigid Church, of which she had been a...
It is officially called the Calendario Romano, or Roman Calendar. But on the streets of Ro...
Are you looking to get your Chicago hot dog and Italian beef fix during the state's "Safer...
It was a rare opportunity for one Milwaukee school -- and it came with a big reward. "This...
The feature length film will simply be called “Cabrini.” Before completing the script, exe...
The Two Popes” stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce as Pope Benedict XVI and the soon-...
Joe Bartolotta, co-owner of The Bartolotta Restaurants, died on Monday night, April 22 at...
Documentary film about the history of the Santa Lucia Festival and Omaha's Little Italy F...