Despite vastly different backgrounds, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have ...

"It's been an unbelievable week, obviously, for all of us," said Mark Duffey, who was ordained as a deacon at St. Thomas of ...

People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption this week mused about what the future might hold for ...

Leo, the first American pope, told the cardinals who elected him that he was fully committed to the reforms of the Second ...

News of an American pope, and a Chicagoan, causes NPR's Scott Simon to remember what it was like attending Mass in his ...

A California judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt much of its massive downsizing of the federal workforce.

Thursday marked a historic day for the Catholic Church that particularly hit home for adherents around Chicago, with the ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and raised in the south suburb of Dolton, where his old house has become a ...

"We never would have suspected that he was going to be a priest, let alone a bishop or cardinal or the Pope. Not in a million ...

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost ministered to alcoholics and addicts at the former St.

EAST CHICAGO — Technology upgrades were likely ... previously called it "a legislative tragedy for Northwest Indiana that will strip away specific funding for public safety and economic ...

Father Rick Nagel says his schedule the next couple days will look different with this news as they wait for direction from ...