After more than five years of frenetic, but sometimes interrupted, reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed itself anew to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019.
A tour of a Saint Jude Thaddeus relic was canceled after an unspecified incident regarding a priest and students was reported in Joliet.
The move ought to send a chill down the spine of every person who cares about free speech and free expression, writes Heidi Stevens.
Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites that will be used when he dies, simplifying the rituals to emphasize his role as a mere bishop and allowing for burial outside the Vatican in keeping with his wishes.
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute genocide, according to excerpts released Sunday from an upcoming new book ahead of the pontiff’s jubilee year.
The Rev. Matthew DeBlock, former principal of St. Edward Central Catholic High School in Elgin and one-time vicar at parishes in Elgin, West Dundee and Gilberts, is being investigated for sexual misconduct with a minor while he worked at a high school in Rockford.
A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 was temporarily blocked Tuesday by a federal judge who said the law is “unconstitutional on its face.”
Post-election healing: Local clergy, researchers tackle the political divide.
Many observant Catholics spent Friday’s All Saints’ Day holiday honoring the multitude of saints who are examples of faith and virtue for the religious. But the celebration will go on longer at one Southwest Side parish, where 17 relics of saints from the biblical era to the 20th century have been on display since Monday […]
For Rev. Laura González, the business of being a witch is a little subversive — reflecting a female empowerment that she doesn’t see in mainstream politics — and thoroughly practical.