During a recent trip to Chicago, I had the fortune to attend the traditional Mass at the Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, the American headquarters for the Institute of Christ the King, located just south of the University of Chicago. The Institute is an international religious order that celebrates the traditional Latin Liturgy exclusively and now has 13 locations in the United States.
In 2003 Cardinal George entrusted this beautiful church to the Institute. Built by German Catholics in the 1920s, the church was in a delapidated, virtually unusable condition. The neighborhood for many years had fallen on hard times, and a fire gutted the building in the 1970s.
Courageously, the Institute has undertaken to restore the church, a project that will cost millions of dollars. The immigrant Catholics of Chicago had the vision to build many monumental churches in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. With similar vision–rarely seen today–the Institute has great plans for their shrine. For further information on this project, go to the shrine website.
by Jill Chessman
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