Father McNamara retired in 2001, and Cardinal Francis George appointed Father Richard Zborowski as pastor for St. Theresa Parish. Ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1978, he was most recently the associate pastor at St. Hubert Parish in Hoffman Estates. Prior to St. Hubert's, Father Zborowski served at St. Bede Parish in Ingleside, St. Joseph Parish in Chicago (Back of the Yards), Holy Ghost Parish in South Holland, and St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Chicago (Hyde Park).

    If our deceased parish pioneers could return to worship with us now, what would be their reaction? Most likely, shock and awe at the changes in the liturgy, then wonderment at the sheer size of the parish and its buildings. What would be their amazement at the involvement of so many lay people in the liturgy and work of the parish.

    And if these earlier parishioners could spend a day visiting our parish they would see St. Theresa as the spiritual center of the lives of Palatine Catholics just as it was fifty years ago. From the time of the first early morning Mass until the last meeting far into the night, St. Theresa Parish today, with its dedicated laity and clergy, stands as a beacon in Palatine. The lives of our present-day parishioners bear witness to Jesus Christ still living in this place more than a half century after it all began.

Here is our parish church. It is a means by which we may mount to heaven... In this church will be unfolded to us the story of Catholic faith and practice...

Our Parish Now and Beyond....