We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with ...

As egg prices soar due to the bird flu, a Chicago pastor is leading an effort to distribute 40,000 eggs to community members ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Chicago-born Cardinals Robert Prevost and Wilton Gregory would be part ...

Trinity Irish Dancers have been performing hundreds of times across the city each March since 1982, becoming a household name and a staple of Chicago’s Irish community.

The vigil comes as doctors for the pope said he is no longer in imminent danger but is still expected to stay in the hospital for a few more days.

Francis has tapped Cupich for key appointments — to help select bishops and as one of 48 hand-picked attendees of a global synod discussing the church’s future. Chicago-born Wilton Gregory was ...

University of Chicago professor Martin Marty was convinced that totalitarianism could be avoided if we worked to build pluralism.

ITASCA, Ill. (WLS) -- A suburban fireworks show has been a sparkling centerpiece of Fourth of July festivities for nearly three decades. However, what's billed as Illinois' largest fireworks ...

Faced with his declining strength, he had evidently realized that the only irreplaceable element in the Church is the Holy ...

Pope Francis continued his recovery from double pneumonia on Saturday as the Vatican’s Holy Year proceeded without him on a weekend dedicated to the Catholic Church’s volunteers. “The ...

For the fourth Sunday in a row ... Francis is very much still the pope and in charge of the Catholic Church. That was evident too by the fact that the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro ...