Chicago itself personifies what Ribnek hopes Prevost will bring to the Catholic Church as pope. "Chicago, I see as a melting pot within the U.S.," she said. "We have many cultures here.

CHICAGO HEIGHTS | About 50 people bid a tearful, final farewell Wednesday to what was left of St. Joseph Catholic Church at a ceremony to open the church's 91-year-old time capsule.

For a while, he and his family seemed like they would enjoy the blessing of the one thing he kept bringing up over the course of our conversation on a beautiful afternoon in downtown Los Angeles: a ...

Three performances by organist Mark Loria at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul invite visitors into the ...

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The Rev. Curtis Lambert — who has “strenuously denied” the allegations, per a letter from Cardinal Blase Cupich — was pulled ...

The first American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church — just like the first American chosen as pope — once walked among the people of Chicago.

The vestments, created by the House of Hansen in former Cardinal Robert Prevost's hometown, were made of an ecclesiastical ...

A spokesperson for the Village of Dolton, Illinois, said the community is working to have the house named a historical site, ...