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Article: At Christmastime, the flock of the Rev. Daniel Coughlin, the chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives, scatters throughout the country.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 26, 2002
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Coughlin, who remains a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, has
tended to the spiritual needs of House members since March 2000. He
moved from the parish house at St. Clements in Lincoln Park to an
apartment in downtown Washington midway between the Capitol and the
White House.
Coughlin would have been content to live in one of Washington's
Catholic religious communities, but his superiors, including Cardinal
Francis George, thought it would be better for him to rent an
apartment on the theory it would be easier for people of all faiths
to seek his counsel.
Much of Coughlin's pastoral work involves getting to know the