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Father Jack Wall, President of Catholic Extension

  • Union League Club Chicago 65 W Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60604 United States (map)

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Tickets go on sale Friday, August 30, 2024

Click below to register and purchase your ticket(s) for the Fr. Jack Wall speaker luncheon at the Union League Club on Friday, October 4th, 2024 at 12 noon.

Online reservations close Tuesday, October 1, 2024 @ 5pm. For any questions or reservations after October 1st, please call Judy Murphy at 224-392-9361


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It’s easy! A donation starting at $75, is good for one membership, September 2024 through May 2025, and allows the purchase of at least one discounted event ticket ($50) per event.


Hope at the border: what the Church looks like when she is at her best.

Join us to hear about those ministering to migrant families at the U.S. - Mexico border. Father Jack Wall, president of Catholic Extension will share some of his experiences at the border and reflect on the heroic work the Catholic Church is doing with those making the journey to the United States.  

More on Fr. Wall

Motivated by the Gospel call to serve the poor, Father Jack Wall invites the nation’s Catholics to walk in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in the poorest areas of our country. 

With Catholic Extension being a papal society, Father Wall was appointed by the Pope himself and by the Holy See as president in 2007 .

Prior to leading Catholic Extension Society, Father Wall served 24 years as pastor of Old St. Patrick’s Church in Chicago. Under his stewardship, the struggling urban church grew from four to 4,000 households, making it one of the most vibrant faith communities in Chicago today.

A lifelong Chicagoan, Father Wall was ordained on May 2, 1968, after receiving his master of divinity and STL from the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. He has served on the faculty of Niles College Seminary at Loyola University and was vocations director for the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1979 to 1985.


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