Website Update – An obvious change was needed to how CMCS-Men use the website, because of how our culture has changed from social internet to social media, or how we like to be fed information instead of look for it.

So, many of the links and resources have been moved from the website to the content (at the bottom) of each email sent to this mailing list. The result now is all of that is being clicked on again!

You can find the site at CMCSArchChicago.org  The website now is mainly general information.

The Catholic Chicago Men Blog was renewed for another year, and mostly shares original content created by Bishop Perry and the CMCS-Team. The blog posts follow our theme of Nurturing Catholic Men’s Spirituality in the Chicago Southland.

We have regular visitors to the blog not only archdiocese wide, but worldwide as well, as it seems to be the only blog sponsored by a Catholic Men’s Apostolate that doesn’t re-post from other sources like Bishop Barron and The Catholic Gentleman sites. Bookmark the address Blog.CMCSArchChicago.org
To search the blog for topics of interest, simply click on an article then scroll to the bottom for the search box. 

The website and email addresses have been changed to the legacy domain name we used years ago from CMCSVirtues.org to CMCSArchChicago.org. And the email address now is cmcs@CMCSArchChicago.org. 

Although the old address still work, the legacy address we find is becoming relevant again. It points out who we are and who we serve, plus we are finally seeing some action in other Vicariates in them doing a men’s conference.

CMCS has always encouraged each Vicariate to host their own apolstolate with their bishop, because each is about the size of the average diocese in the US. We also open our events to the men of the archdiocese, but we find the average men in attendance prefer to drive about twenty minutes from their house on a Saturday morning, and this becomes difficult for guy's up in Lake Forest, for example, to come down to Tinley Park and visa versa. 

Men’s Forum – We have changed the format of the Men’s Conference to the Forum: We present a topic, then ask the men to discuss a question or two at their tables. We then compile the response from all groups to share the themes and conversation.

Men seem to connect the dots with other men on their spiritual journey. And at our recent Forum on April 27th this method again seemed to have great impact and turned very effective. On their response cards, sixty percent of the men indicated they would commit to living Bishop Perry’s Virtues of a Catholic Man, this is the highest response yet, and their comments were staggering.

Read the homily from Bishop Perry’s closing Mass on the blog.