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Father Robert Lombardo directs volunteers ready to help with the Mobile Food Pantry, which serves some 250 families on the West Side of Chicago once a month.
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All because of God Franciscan friar Bob Lombardo knows whom to thank for his flourishing urban ministry.
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Heidi Schlumpf
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ather Robert Lombardo, C.F.R. is not one to talk much about himself. The 54-yearold priest quietly acknowledges in a few words that his parents still live in Connecticut, that the Ursuline Sisters taught him in grade school, and that he
Heidi Schlumpf is an associate professor of communication at Aurora University in the Chicago suburbs and the author of While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt (ACTA).
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is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. O.K., maybe he has a few extra things to say about the sorry state of Fighting Irish football. What Lombardo really likes to talk about is his ministry in one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods and the new religious order he is mentoring. But even then he is reluctant to mention much about his role in either of these major accomplishments. Lombardo is clear: It’s not about him. “This is not my doing; it’s God’s doing,” he says, even eschewing the term
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