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It's been nearly six months since fire damaged the historic Holy Name Cathedral and while worshipers have found other locations to hold mass, they'll soon be back in their church. Repairs have been ongoing - at a rate of 10 hours a day for six days a week - and the $6 million repair is almost done, mostly covered by insurance. It appears the church will reopen officially on Saturday, August 1. CBS 2 has more on the repair efforts and the expected reopening.

In spite of a large fire that resulted in massive amounts of smoke and water damage to the storied cathedral, Holy Name Cathedral opened its doors this morning for mass. The church used the Club Room, the same room that was recently used when the church was undergoing rehab work. Rev. Matt Compton thankend attendees, calling their presence, "a manifestation of their faith that they weren't deterred."

An early morning extra alarm fire caused heavy damage to the downtown Holy Name Cathedral. Besides damage from fire and smoke, there was heavy water damage and according to Cardinal Francis George the roof will need to be rebuilt. While the cause of the fire is still unknown, early speculation is that it may be related to current renovations. The fire broke out around 5:30 a.m. this morning but was out by 8 a.m. The current church was completed in 1874, replacing the original church that burned down in the Great Fire of 1871.

The group of anti-war protesters who pulled one of the stupidest moves of the year by disrupting the Easter Sunday service at Holy Name Cathedral were sentenced on Friday. Each was sentenced to: one year probation, 30 days of community service, and ordered to pay $2,600 in restitution. The group also denied they had anything to do with Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War who had originally claimed responsibility. Cook County Judge James B. Linn, who sentenced the group, also had some choice words for the protesters who had shouted and sprayed the congregation with fake blood, calling them "very naive," and then adding:

I find it ironic that in this case that the target you picked out, the people you were disturbing on perhaps their holiest day, trying to express their beliefs, literally trying to communicate with God -- I would guess that the majority of those people were probably of the same mind as you about the Iraq war.

Trib says four, Sun-Times says three people were taken to area hospitals when when a car driven by an elderly woman plowed into a West Rogers Park Starbucks. There is no evidence the driver of the car was intoxicated, or hyped up on cafinated beverages. [S-T, Trib]

As some would say, God, or what have you, works in mysterious ways. Some might call those ways cruel and unusual. Others might shrug their shoulders and say, "Que sera sera." (Those people are usually Portuguese or Hitchcock fans, we surmise.) Whatever's behind the Fickle Finger of Fate, it pointed straight at Cardinal Francis George on Saturday when he fell during a pre-Easter blessing ceremony and fractured his hip.

The White Sox signed infielder Eduardo Perez to a minor-league contract on Monday. Awesome because all he does is strike out or hit home runs. Who's puncturing the tires of a couple dozen school buses in the suburbs? Although the police maintain that officers acted appropriately in the shooting death of Cornelius Ware, a 20-year-old paraplegic, the city has agreed to pay his family $5.2 million. John H. Bryan and Richard Gray, who helped...

From The We Never Thought We'd See This Happen Desk, the Sun-Times reports that two Chicago police officers were towed last week for parking illegally. The department later sent a memo to officers warning them about parking in handicapped spots or in front of hydrants.

Doing their bit to make the whole Church-State, Gay-Not-Gay, Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell, Queer-Eye-For-The-Straight-Catholic debate a little bit more confusing, members of the Rainbow Sash Movement showed up at Holy Name Cathedral on Sunday, wearing rainbow sashes to display their sexual orientation, and were then denied communion. Despite a warning from Cardinal Francis George that just this thing would happen, the Sash Folks decided to go anyway. At this point Chicagoist would make a joke, but religion and politics makes this topic into the third rail of all possible topics. Scary.