Religion
From the Chicago archdiocese and its Catholic schools, to the rich diversity of religions across the city, the Sun-Times has you covered.
On the fifth night of Hanukkah, a crowd gathered in the Loop for a menorah lighting and to celebrate light and life.
Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is an eight-day commemoration that begins Thursday.
The Rev. Robert Dowd will take over July 1. He succeeds the Rev. John Jenkins, who led the university for 19 years.
Rev. Richard McGrath’s name belongs on lists of abusers kept by all Catholic dioceses where he worked, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests said.
Along with the bouquet, the president sent a note to the 104-year-old Loyola icon during his visit last week: “Dear Sister Jean, Thinking of you during my trip to Chicago today! Keep the Faith!”
Multiple houses on several blocks were targeted overnight with their pro-Israel signs vandalized and stolen.
As a Christian, Mariyah Green felt “alone and angry” when her opinions about a meditation program weren’t respected and she was not given a choice about whether to participate, the lawsuit states.
“There’s nothing much we can do as an individual, but as the priest said, we can show by example and we can pray,” parishioner Keum-Lee Mayes said.
‘So many people are suffering when they don’t need to. We can live in harmony, that’s what all three of our religions tell us,’ said Daniel Welter, a deacon at Holy Name Cathedral.
Attendees gathered to pray, sing and listen to speeches in support of Israel on Monday.
Members of the group IfNotNow recited the mourner’s Kaddish, a Jewish prayer typically spoken during the grieving period after the death of a loved one.
Religious organizations own substantial properties that sit empty or little used. Why aren’t they being opened to shelter people arriving in Chicago?
A three-hour rally and march started at 1 p.m. in front of the building housing the Israeli Consulate. Supporters of Palestinians and Israel rallied across the U.S. on Sunday.
‘He passed away in his sleep,’ according to an archdiocese spokesperson. It wasn’t clear what caused his death.
The donation from Jim Irsay, a Lincolnwood native, is being given in honor of his late cousin, Sister Joyce Dura, a longtime nun in Chicago.
Just weeks before she is inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame, Loyola University’s Sister Jean spoke with Sneed about a childhood filled with family and exotic pets and a ministry devoted to basketball, kindness and faith in God: ‘We are never alone.’
The sound of the shofar is meant to stir us from our end-of-year malaise and call us to reflect on our lives and the state of society.
This year, the two-day holiday begins at sunset on Friday, Sept. 15, and ends on Sunday night, Sept. 17. It’s a time for reflection, repentance and renewal.
Proposed rewrite of Chicago’s hate crime ordinance would create new category called ‘hate incidents’
The ordinance Ald. Debra Silverstein plans to introduce would create the noncriminal category, and Chicagoans could report incidents via 311.
The buyer hopes to turn the building — empty for years as former parishioners and the Archdiocese of Chicago fought over its fate — into an events space.
La respuesta para estas iglesias tiene que ser mejor que cerrar las puertas con candado.
The preliminary recommendation was supposed to prevent removal of the stained glass.
The first step in the landmarking process protects the building at the heart of a contentious neighborhood fight from being dismantled or sold.
Feligreses protestaron la remoción de las ventanas originales y en apoyo de asignar el estatus de preservación.
Preservationists say the designation would save St. Adalbert Church from being demolished by the Archdiocese of Chicago, which closed the church in 2019. The hearing is on Monday.
Pittsburgh synagogue gunman will be sentenced to death for the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack
Eleven worshippers at Tree of Life synagogue were killed by Robert Bowers in 2018. Bowers expressed hatred of Jews and white supremacist beliefs online before the attack.
Respect and coercion clash in Sweden. Should Quran burning be safely squelched, is Dante’s ‘Inferno’ next?
Vice President Harris said that when she was in law school in the 1980s, she had a ‘Jesse Jackson for President’ bumper sticker on her car.