Jews all too familiar with pain of atrocities
Chicago-area Jews on Tuesday declared high security alerts at synagogues and schools and said they felt some of the terror their Israeli brothers and sisters have known for years. Although...
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Movement to convert gays grows, draws fire
At first glance, the gathering of mostly young men might look and sound like a gay support group. There's singing, praying, eating and conversation--with masculinity and same-sex relationships as the...
2nd Sabina vote urged
Relying on moral persuasion rather than force, the pastors of parishes in a mostly white athletic league said they will try to persuade athletic directors to let in a predominantly...
Hillard vowing safety at Sabina
As Catholic parishes wrestled over whether a mostly black grammar school will be allowed to play in a mostly white league, Chicago Police Supt. Terry Hillard on Monday said he...
Cardinal cautious on St. Sabina
In his first comments on the St. Sabina dispute, Cardinal Francis George said Sunday he would not speculate why representatives of a mostly white Catholic athletic league voted to keep...
Catholic school league faces test
Fourth-grader Maya Hart said it wasn't hard for her to figure out why her school, St. Sabina, was turned away from a mostly white Catholic athletic league. "They don't want...
Archdiocese steps in after league rejects black school
Bishops, priests and nuns gathered at Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago headquarters Thursday to take a stand against a Catholic athletic league that turned away St. Sabina, a predominantly black South...
Gordon Tech will admit girls in 2002
As a freshman at Gordon Tech High School in 1959, Joseph Glab wondered when it would admit girls. Now that he's Father Glab and the school's president, he knows. On...
Graduation has pomp, but it won’t have prayer
It was just a practice session for Sunday's graduation ceremony at Washington Community High School. But when valedictorian Natasha Appenheimer walked to the front of the gym Friday morning, some...
Muslims get help against meat cheats
The large sign in the window of a Pakistani and Indian grocery on West Devon Avenue offers a $50,000 reward to anyone who can prove that any meat sold there...