Victory — for now — at Northwest Side church after Vatican appeal

Susanna Ernst, president of the Northwest Chicago Historical Society, fought to overturn the Archdiocese of Chicago’s decree ordering the deconsecration of Our Lady of Victory Church, where she is a parishioner. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Renata Gryzik graduated from Our Lady of Victory Church’s grammar school in 1973. She was a member of the Northwest Side parish when the church closed in 2021.

Now 63, Gryzik attends St. Edward Catholic Church. But following the revocation of a decree from the Archdiocese of Chicago, she said she hopes she can again worship in the church where she attended third through eighth grade.