An attempt to break out of a Washington Parish jail was prevented by jail staff. Here’s how much money you should have saved for retirement based on your age ...

The 67-year-old church was once a thriving parish. But the Archdiocese of Chicago decided to close the church due to a lack ...

A historic preservation organization is lobbying to have the childhood church of Pope Leo XIV designated as a Chicago ...

An image of Pope Leo XIV with rappers in Chicago is digitally altered and was shared by an X account that posts parody and ...

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond the new pope.

Now that the world's most famous Catholic is an American from Chicago, some hope Pope Leo XIV will help bring new energy to a ...

Pope Leo XIV's background tells the story of complicated racial identities in the U.S., multiculturalism and Black Catholics ...

Chicago-area motorcyclists rode their bikes to Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in Merrillville, Indiana, for a special bike ...

Language and how it’s used shapes not only the way we feel but also how we think, said Viorica Marian, professor of ...

St. Thomas More Church was built in the late 1950s. Now, because of what the Archdiocese of Chicago has deemed declining membership, the church is closing its doors to parishioners.

Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the new pope for the past decade has held dual citizenship in the U.S. and Peru, ...