Fr. Daniel O’Sullivan at a 2008 Blessing of the Animals. (Photo: Photobucket)
Commentary
By Rev. Daniel J. O’Sullivan
I was raised in an Irish Catholic ghetto on the West Side of Chicago. We learned our family and ethnic heritage very well and cherished our traditional Catholic faith. We knew our neighborhood well, but knew little beyond our parish.
Celebrations were frequent; music, singing, dancing, story-telling and laughter were common either in pubs or at…
