The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

It’s a trend across the country and here in NEPA, More and more churches are closing. But some entrepreneurs are using ...

The 67-year-old St. Thomas More — a striking example of modernist Catholic ecclesiastical design — will hold its last liturgy on May 25 and will no longer function as a church after that.

St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church started with promise in 1874, when the land around the new parish, in what is now the St. Louis Place neighborhood, was still rural. Within five years, the humble ...