[applause] thank you for coming out here and coming inside on an especially rare beautiful day in chicago, so we appreciate you being here. my name is monia. i cover religion at the chicago tribune. i ve been here for eight years. and the different traumas and sagas that have surrounded his church, the roman catholic church, on the city s south side. but he is not just a chicago icon. he has really become a national catholic icon who really represents social justice and other but other things as well in the catholic church besides social justice, especially, how priests, how clergy, how churches can really communicate and deal with the media i would say in positive and negative ways. i would say he s a model of both. the real expert is seated to my right and this is robert mccolory. and bob and i have known each other for a while because we taught together at northwestern medill school of journalism, taught students how to cover religion so that was how i got to know bo