Raymond and Margaret Ehrig renewed their vows at St. George Catholic Church. The couple, married 75 years, celebrated with 30 family members attending the ceremony.

Near the anniversary of his sudden and early death from a heat stroke on a hot, steamy Chicago street in July 1897, ...

Dolton Mayor Jason House said the village’s purchase of the former home of Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A steering committee will look at ...

The first American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church — just like the first American chosen as pope — once walked among the people of Chicago.

Top church leaders in the Holy Land have condemned intensifying Israeli settler violence on the only entirely Christian Palestinian village remaining in the occupied West Bank. Monday's rare solidarit ...

1946: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized by Pope Pius XII as the first American saint. The Italian-American nun ...

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole and African ancestry, traced to Louisiana and West Africa, is prompting celebration and curiosity among ...

Catholic organizations had lobbied Pat Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of Prevost’s message to him.

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers. That's according to attorneys representing more than 900 survivors who have filed lawsuits ...

The Italian director Damiano Michieletto has engaged, and sometimes enraged, European audiences. Now he’s preparing for his ...

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown is poised to acquire his childhood home. Board members in suburban Dolton outside Chicago voted unanimously Tuesday to purchase the property in hopes it will breathe new ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, leaving the town a bit bereft.