Pope Francis took the unusual decision Wednesday to expel 10 people from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru.
Pope expels a bishop and 9 other people from a Peru movement over ‘sadistic’ abuses
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Are Donald Trump and Kamala Harris particularly Christian? That’s not what most Americans say: AP-NORC poll
Few Americans see the presidential candidates as particularly Christian, according to a new survey conducted Sept. 12-16 by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs.
From Project 2025 to Evangelicals for Harris: How Wheaton College grads are involved in presidential politics
With the high-stakes 2024 presidential election looming, alumni and former faculty of Wheaton College are playing an outsized role in the race.
Western Springs church gets bells back after a year of silence
For decades the bells at All Saints Episcopal Church in Western Springs signaled kids it was time for lunch or dinner, until last year.
87 and hobbled, Pope Francis goes off-script in Asia and reminds world he can still draw a crowd
Four years and a handful of hospitalizations later (for intestinal and pulmonary problems), Pope Francis finally pulled off an 11-day trip through Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore.
University of Illinois campus welcomes new policies to combat antisemitism in wake of federal civil rights complaint
In the wake of a federal complaint, the school will overhaul its anti-discrimination policies and work with Jewish groups.
State investigates abuse allegations against priest who served in Park Ridge, Lincoln Park
The Archdiocese of Chicago has put a priest who served two parishes in the north suburbs and in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on leave after the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services opened a probe into allegations that he abused children.
Pope Francis has packed first day in Indonesia with visits to president, clergy in test of stamina, health
Pope Francis is opening his visit to Indonesia with a packed first day Wednesday, meeting political and religious leaders and setting a rigorous pace for an 11-day, four-nation trip through tropical Asia and Oceania that will test his stamina and health.
Illinois mourns killing of Israeli hostages including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, who had Chicago ties
One of six hostages confirmed killed by Hamas in Gaza over the weekend was Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the 23-year-old son of Chicago natives Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg who was kidnapped from the Tribe of Nova music festival in the Negev desert in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
Pope embarks on longest, farthest and most challenging trip to Asia, with China in the background
Pope Francis will clock 20,390 miles by air during his Sept. 2-13 visit to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore, far surpassing any of his previous 44 foreign trips and notching one of the longest papal trips ever.