Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope ...

When the Rev. Matthew Baum attended Johnstown’s Juneteenth activities recently, he was on a multi-layered mission. Baum, rector at St. John Gualbert Cathedral and St. Patrick Catholic Church, both in ...

Since 2022, Catholic Charities of Chicago has contracted with Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies to lobby on its behalf before the State of Illinois.

But greater Chicago’s Catholic population reached its peak at close to 2.5 million in 1970 and has since dropped to 1.9 million, while the number of diocesan priests has gone from 1,261 in 1975 ...

On May 7, Robert Francis Prevost entered the Sistine Chapel as a dark-horse cardinal from Chicago. A day later, after securing the votes of at least 89 out of his 132 peers, he appeared on the balcony ...

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois Chicago.

“He went all the way back to 1900 and picked Leo XIII,” said Greg Pierce, the publisher of ACTA Publications in Chicago. “That’s going to send a message to Donald Trump and his friends . . .

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a ...

Chicago native becomes first pope from U.S. in 2,000-year history of Catholic church By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press May 8, 2025 ...

From being born enslaved to building the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, the trajectory of Father Augustus Tolton’s life is remarkable. Almost as stunning is the ...

The U.S. Catholic Church has a painful history of racism. One step toward healing could be canonization of the six African Americans currently up for consideration as saints.

The Shrine of All Saints at St. Martha Church in Morton Grove has 3,100 Catholic holy relics and added ones from St. Luke, author of a gospel, and St. Juan Diego.