When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they … - Sara Paretsky

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Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt. . . but a find; not a greeting. . . but a proclamation; not an outward fashion. . . but inward grace; not a day. . . but an eternity.

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When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

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