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

“Madonna of the Rosary with St. Dominic and St. Catherine” at St. Margaret-Mary Catholic Church in Parkersburg ... Simon Parkes Art Conservation of New York City spent two months cleaning ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting ... a way forward for the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Francis chose his place of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna ...