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Parade marshals take care of last minute details before Chicago's 46th Annual Pride Parade steps off on Broadway and Montrose avenues Sunday, June 28, 2015.

Seminary’s ‘second coming’ condoms offend some conservative Christians

August 18, 2019 at 8:09 p.m.

At Chicago Theological Seminary, a big brouhaha has come in 1,600 tiny packages. Rather than hand out souvenir buttons or bumper stickers at events this summer, students and faculty from...

Wheaton College is ending health care coverage for more than 700 undergraduate and graduate students, about a quarter of the student body, to avoid complying with the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive rules.

Wheaton College ends coverage amid fight against birth control mandate

August 18, 2019 at 8:08 p.m.

Taking a firm stand against Obamacare's controversial contraception mandate, Wheaton College on Friday will stop providing any health insurance for students. The decision, announced to students July 10, will halt...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, shown in Chicago on July 6, 2015, has joined the Mayors United Against Anti-Semitism initiative.

Emanuel joins mayors fighting anti-Semitism

May 22, 2019 at 8:24 p.m.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has joined other mayors from across the U.S. in calling on European leaders to publicly address and curb a recent rise of anti-Semitism. The Mayors United...

The Rev. Robert Barron, shown in 2012, has been tapped to become an auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Mundelein Seminary rector named bishop in LA

May 22, 2019 at 8:24 p.m.

Pope Francis has named a prominent Chicago priest to be one of the next auxiliary bishops in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The Rev. Robert Barron, rector of...

Ousted Orthodox bishop serving in Pennsylvania parish

August 18, 2019 at 8:03 p.m.

The former Chicago bishop of the Orthodox Church in America who was asked to retire amid allegations of sexual misconduct two years ago has been serving as a parish priest...

Halima Ali, left, greets Ahlam Mahmood on July 7, 2015, in a Chicago senior care facility in Uptown. Ali is in her 70s and gets food for Ramadan from Mahmood and other volunteers.

Families provide Ramadan meals for refugee in nursing home

August 18, 2019 at 8:02 p.m.

Seated near the elevator, Halima Ali bounded from her chair when another woman in a headscarf stepped off. The two women kissed each other's cheeks before Ali led the way...

Rabbi Capers Funnye Jr., the spiritual leader of Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in the Marquette Park neighborhood, soon could have the platform to set the record straight about race and diversity within the American Jewish community.

Chicago rabbi set to become chief of black Jews group

August 18, 2019 at 7:59 p.m.

When Rabbi Capers Funnye Jr. enters an unfamiliar synagogue at dawn to join the daily recitation of Hebrew prayers, his presence inevitably prompts questions. The 63-year-old African-American occasionally shares his...

The Rev. Patrick Henry Reardon of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago says the government can define and sanction marriage on its terms but that he'll no longer act as an agent of the government by signing civil licenses.

Chicago priest protests same-sex marriage, won’t sign civil marriage licenses

August 18, 2019 at 7:56 p.m.

The Rev. Patrick Henry Reardon is getting out of the civil marriage business. The Orthodox Christian priest on Chicago's North Side says the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalizes same-sex...

Cardinals and bishops attend at the mass celebrated by Pope Francis for the imposition of the Pallium upon the new metropolitan archbishops and the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul on June 29, 2015 at St Peter's basilica in Vatican.

Cupich stays mum on meeting with Pope Francis

May 22, 2019 at 8:15 p.m.

Chicago's Archbishop Blase Cupich said he won't disclose any more of what Pope Francis shared with him during a private meeting last week inside the Vatican, only that the Holy...

Archbishop Blase Cupich, seen April 21, 2015, offered his take June 28, 2015, on the Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

Cupich: ‘Respect must be real, not rhetorical’

May 22, 2019 at 8:15 p.m.

As Chicago's Pride Parade came to a close Sunday afternoon, Chicago's Archbishop Blase Cupich urged Roman Catholics to "extend support to all families, no matter their circumstances, recognizing that we...

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