Manya Brachear Pashman

Known as the "Harvard of Christian colleges," Wheaton College in Chicago's western suburbs toils to attract quality faculty who can integrate their Christian faith with the topics they teach. At...

A tenured political science professor who Wheaton College seeks to fire said the private evangelical school has leveled a number of charges against her, including "her unqualified assertion of religious...

Three schools in the Chicago Archdiocese are slated to close at the end of the school year, church officials said Tuesday. St. Agatha Catholic Academy, an early childhood program in...

Wheaton College has begun the process of firing a professor who said Muslims and Christians worship the same God, the teacher and the west suburban school confirmed Tuesday. Larycia Hawkins,...

Should a priest's sexual misconduct as a youth bar him from ministry? That's the question facing Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich. For decades, the Rev. Bruce Wellems, a Roman Catholic priest...

A Wheaton College professor suspended for saying Muslims and Christians worship the same God said Thursday she has submitted a theological statement requested by school administrators and now will focus...

If Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins had simply donned a headscarf to support her Muslim neighbors without explaining herself, she still might be administering final exams this week. Instead, Hawkins,...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin appealed to Pope Francis on Tuesday to stop a Roman Catholic cardinal's derogatory remarks about the openly gay U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic. In a...