Julia Lieblich

For the first time in 27 years, trucks will spray airborne insecticides in Chicago, targeting areas of the North and South Sides beginning at dusk Sunday to kill mosquitoes that...

Cook County Deputy Sheriff Crystal Clark, a Muslim, has been forbidden to wear her religious headscarf on the job, and a national Muslim advocacy group said Monday it is taking...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Cleveland school voucher program has emboldened some religious leaders in Illinois, who said Thursday they hope to meet with state lawmakers and...

For years American missionaries brought Christianity to Africa. Now African Christians say they want to export their own brand of ecstatic worship and moral discipline to the United States, a...

As legislators in Illinois and elsewhere seek to force Catholic clergy to report allegations of sexual abuse, they are finding the confession booth to be guarded by a thicket of...

American cardinals emerged Wednesday from an extraordinary two-day summit at the Vatican lacking consensus on whether to expel priests found guilty of a single instance of sexual abuse against a...

Cardinal Francis George, speaking publicly for the first time on Rev. Michael Pfleger's tenure at St. Sabina, said that denying the pastor a fourth six-year term is not a reprimand...

Rev. Walter Johnson was already planning a Christmas sermon that would comfort a congregation hit by high unemployment. Then thieves stole about $600 worth of Christmas gifts from his church,...

On Saturday afternoon, a 10-year-old St. Sabina Saint held hands with an 11-year-old St. Alexander Raider and said a prayer that had been a long time coming. "Thank God we...

On Saturday afternoon, in an echoey old South Side gym, two centers for 5th-grade basketball teams will jump for a ball and start the season for St. Sabina, the first...