(Penny Shnay/for the Daily Southtown) When Sharon McCarthy of Park Forest heard St. Mary Catholic Church would close ... Clifford Ando: The University of Chicago is crucial to Chicago.

One of the congregations slated for a merger in the western suburbs has appealed that move by Bishop Ron Hicks, who oversees ...

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first ...

(WJAR) — St. Mary's Catholic Church announced it will be opening its doors again after a fire last year. According to church officials, they have returned furniture and fixtures back inside on ...

The next stop on the Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour will be at St. Mary Catholic Church on Sunday, Feb. 23. The instrument being featured was built in 1926 by George Kilgen & Son of St. Louis ...

Low attendance and costly upkeep of the 94-year-old "beautiful but aging building” at 38 N. Austin Blvd. were cited as ...

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores human mortality. It is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence for ...