‘Media nuns' say goodbye to sweet home Chicago after more than 40 years
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2022-09-12 23:30
‘Media nuns' say goodbye to sweet home Chicago after more than 40 years
CHICAGO (RNS) — When the Daughters of St. Paul received permission from Chicago's then-Cardinal John Cody to open a bookstore in downtown Chicago in 1979, they hurried to make it happen in time for Pope John Paul II's visit to the city later that year. By the time the pope's motorcade drove down Michigan Avenue that October, the first floor of an old storefront had been successfully converted into Pauline Books and Media, and the pope's books lined the front windows. Above the display the sisters unfurled a huge banner across the front of the building: 'We love you, John Paul II.

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