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 beloved church that's stood at the heart of Chicago's Ashburn neighborhood for more than six decades held its final Mass on Sunday morning. St. Thomas More Church was built in the late 1950s. Now, ...

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to ...

The Prevost family belonged to the now-shuttered St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in the Riverdale neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, then populated by throngs of Catholic families.

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

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

CHICAGO – Rome, the ancient city and historic home of the Catholic Church, felt close to the South Side on Sunday as Chicagoans were still grasping the reality that a son of the neighborhood had ...

As Europe and the rest of the Western world have seen the number of Catholics drop, the Catholic church has been growing in Africa, Asia and South America. Chicago’s Catholic population remains ...

Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times “No one in Chicago could relax until they knew which parish he was from,” said Bridget Gainer, a Cook County commissioner and member of a large South ...