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Muldoon: A True Chicago Ghost Story: Tales of a Forgotten Rectory
Poverty. Crime. Politics. Scandal. Revenge. . . and a Ghost.
These are the untold stories of the last days of a forgotten Chicago parish by the last person able to tell them:
Fresh out of the seminary in 1956, Father Rocco Facchini was appointed to his first assignment, the parish of Saint Charles Borromeo on the city's Near West Side. Adapting to rectory life with an unor
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Published
September 1st 2003
by Lake Claremont Press
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This book is so much more than a first person account of possibly paranormal activity in the lovely old gothic style rectory at the now non-existent Saint Charles Borromeo Church. It's also a memoir of a former priest's first years answering what he believed to be his calling, serving under one of those awful demagogue priest that sound like a stereotype, but as this book shows, really do exist. There's also a lot of history about Chicago and how the Catholic immigrant demographic helped make th...more
I was surprised at how interesting I found this book. A beautiful old stone Chicago church, built to last a thousand years, falls into disrepair--and the last priest before the Church gives up and sells the property swears it's haunted by its namesake, an old bishop's ghost.
I'm not normally a fan of ghost stories, but this one was very well told and very interesting. That it's supposedly true--it is written by the priest himself--adds another layer to the tale. I have to say, my mom's getting be...more
I'm not normally a fan of ghost stories, but this one was very well told and very interesting. That it's supposedly true--it is written by the priest himself--adds another layer to the tale. I have to say, my mom's getting be...more
great history of chicago catholic church as it grew with the city, some infighting among the irish and italians for power, and a ghost story that has touched a few lives I know.
Interesting ghost story sprinkled with a little history of the city and church in Illinois.
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