In northern Mesopotamia, by the 10th century B.C. at the height of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the priests knew that if the planet Jupiter was visible as the eclipse passed overhead, the king was doomed.

Would His ‘ Beatitude please send a priest to Chicago to minister to 150 Chaldean Rite Catholic families, refugees from Assyria and Mesopotamia and the largest group of their countrymen in the U.