Religion
From the Chicago archdiocese and its Catholic schools, to the rich diversity of religions across the city, the Sun-Times has you covered.
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.
Manischewitz, purveyor of traditional Jewish foodstuffs, is developing a ribald personality on Twitter. Not everybody gets the joke.
Kenneth Lewis, 62, entered the plea Thursday to a felony count of aggravated sexual abuse in a deal with Cook County prosecutors that saw other charges against him dropped, including predatory criminal sexual assault.
Hundreds filled Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Lake View for a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Blase Cupich, who honored the group as a ‘covenant of people.’
The 86-year-old pontiff sounded breathless and hoarse as he greeted the public in St. Peter’s Square, two days after being discharged from the hospital for abdominal surgery.
Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms because of his “700 Club” television show.
The Vatican said there were no complications in the three-hour surgery. The pope will be hospitalized for several days, and papal audiences are canceled through June 18.
The attorney general didn’t name John D. Murphy. The Archdiocese of Chicago settled claims over Murphy but doesn’t include him on its list. And his order hasn’t named abusers — but said Saturday it hopes to “in the near future.”
People from many states have traveled to a small Missouri town to view the perfectly preserved body of a nun who died four years ago and was exhumed in April.
The Rev. John Hannah, senior pastor of New Life Covenant Church Southeast, led hundreds in the “Prayer on the 9” march.
The cardinal’s questions on how the Illinois attorney general’s abuse claims were substantiated “are particularly perplexing because many of those 125 names” came from the Archdiocese of Chicago, Raoul said.
Special antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt said antisemitism ‘threatens not just the safety of Jews, but the strength of our democracy.’
The blaze caused more than $78,000 in damage to the shrine, a sacred site to many Chicago-area Catholics.
Preserved mostly in devotions, particularly in chapels built of mud and straw in rural communities, New Mexican Spanish is different from any other Spanish dialect.
Michael Gerrity now works for the Augustinian religious order in Chicago. In 2005, he pleaded guilty to felony charges, admitting he “misappropriated” more than $250,000 from a charity associated with Franciscan sisters.
Prejean, 84, addresses Catholic lawyers in Chicago, reminisces about fights against capital punishment — and will likely attend her seventh execution later this year.
Parishioners were upset when the archdiocese decreed in 2022 that Our Lady of Victory would be deconsecrated and ‘relegated to profane use,’ but the Vatican took their side.
The festivities and buffet were organized by the Ojala Foundation, which aims to allow Muslims from many backgrounds to “hang on to the culture they came in with.”
Police said the potential gathering appears to be “much like” the ones in Chicago last weekend that left three teens shot and ended with more than a dozen arrests.
Presiding over her last City Council meeting on Wednesday, the mayor introduced an ordinance empowering Aviation Commissioner Jamie Rhee to negotiate new, more “limited relief” for O’Hare and Midway concessionaires.
The stories of people like Ralph Rehbock, 88, who lives in Northbrook — whose family fled Nazi Germany when he was 4 — are important to be preserved and shared.
James Macdonald, fired from Harvest Bible Chapel in 2019, has been charged in a March attack on a woman in a parking dispute, police said.
A year after a fire destroyed the building on Good Friday, plans to rebuild have been finalized, but the church still needs at least $3 million to open debt-free in 2025.
“The church that loved me, and that raised me and reared me, nearly turned its back on me,” Pastor Don Abram, who identifies as queer, said of his journey.
