1+ hour, 43+ min ago  (1828+ words) It was a class reunion like no other. Ten 1969 graduates of St. Mary of the Assumption school on the city's Far South Side traveled to Vatican City to reconnect with a fellow alum whom they now call Holy Father. Pope…...

4+ week, 17+ hour ago  (525+ words) On Holy Thursday, local clergy members offered Communion and got down on their knees to wash the feet of detainees at the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, even as the migrants were handcuffed and shackled during the religious…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (127+ words) Chicago Tribune Amid an ongoing court battle over clergy access to the west suburban ICE facility, Catholic ministers entered the building and, in the traditional Holy Thursday ritual, washed the feet of 14 detainees at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (812+ words) DOUALA, Cameroon " Pope Leo XIV urged Cameroon's young people on Friday to resist the temptation of corruption and instead work to serve the common good as he celebrated a Mass before thousands of people in one of the largest expected…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (778+ words) MONGOMO, Equatorial Guinea " Pope Leo XIV urged Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday to work for justice and to close the gap "between the privileged and the disadvantaged" as he opened a day drawing attention to the vast income inequalities and human…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (370+ words) MUXIMA, Angola " Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the "sorrow and great suffering" Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an important hub of the African slave trade during…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (438+ words) ROME " Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event of the Vatican's 2025 Holy Year. The Vatican said an estimated…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1616+ words) As newly elected Pope Leo XIV " a native son of Chicago " made his first appearance on the loggia at St. Peter's Basilica, Cardinal Blase Cupich looked on from an adjacent balcony, keenly aware of the monumental moment. The archbishop of…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (940+ words) After losing not only their affiliation with the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church but its Naperville church as well, it would be easy for members of the former Wheatland Salem United Methodist Church to call it quits....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (622+ words) On Easter Sunday, Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago visited Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Glenview to celebrate mass on the important Catholic holiday. In his homily, Cupich talked about a book he finds spiritually enriching…...