John Cullerton grew up in the church.
Long before the Illinois Democrat became one of the most powerful politicians in the state, before his party picked him to be president of the Senate, he attended Catholic school. A lot of it. Grammar school, high school, college, law school. Then he sent his children to Catholic school, all five of them. He's from a devoted family and raised his own to be the same, he said.
But if he were to attend Mass — which he does every week — in the Illinois capital, maybe before a Senate session one morning, he would be left out of the most important part of the service: Holy Communion.
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