The Diocese of Joliet on Thursday announced additional Catholic church closings or mergers, set to take effect July 1. The ...

The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

Inducting Msgr. Karl Chimiak (center) into Mount St. Mary’s Academic Circle of Excellence Alumni Hall of Fame are (at left) ...

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. (WLS) -- Wednesday was the funeral for Bears principal owner Virginia Halas McCaskey. Family, friends ...

This is the week we recall the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Although we don’t single out his birthday as a nation any longer, ...

Joining Wichita among the ranks of dioceses that ordain more men than they need were Paterson, New Jersey and Arlington, ...

Bishop Robert Casey has been appointed archbishop of Cincinnati. Provided Share A south suburban native who has served in the Archdiocese of Chicago has been picked to become archbishop of Cincinnati.

A Catholic priest from Michigan, famous for his exorcism podcast, was charged with battery after he was accused by police of "flossing" his teeth with a teenage girl's hair. The post Podcast priest ...

The City Hall of Brașov, a popular mountain city in Romania, announced plans to restore the courtyard of the Black Church using non-repayable European funds. The project, valued at RON 24 million ...

The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five Illinois voters have filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to throw out the legislative district map drawn in 2021 SPRINGFIELD, Ill.