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.
A 15-month legal battle between a breakaway faction of the United Methodist Church in Naperville and the church’s regional body for Northern Illinois has been settled.
Parishes included St. Gianna, St. John Fisher, Christ the King, St. Barnabas, St. Christina and Our Lady at St. Germaine.
Volunteers from Nazareth Academy in La Grange Park will fan out throughout the area to mark the school’s birthday by helping others.
More than a thousand people gathered in Chicago’s north suburbs Monday evening to mourn, pray and commemorate a year since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Hamas’ attack killed more than about 1,200 Israelis in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust and left another 251 people hostage in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. It began a war that has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians and produced spikes in both anti-semitism and Islamaphobia nationwide. As the fighting enters its second year, 101 hostages remain in Gaza, according to the Associated Press. Those 101 hostages were a focal point of […]
There was a big turnout for a special pet blessing service Friday at St. Cletus Parish in La Grange.
Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, significantly increasing the size of the College of Cardinals and further cementing his mark on the group of prelates who will one day elect his successor.
The pain of the conflict sparked by the attacks thousands of miles across the globe has touched the Chicago area in so many ways.
On Oct. 6, 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a weeklong U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.