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Muslims pray Friday at the 3,000-strong Islamic Foundation in Villa Park. A resident scholar there said curious Muslim youths encounter propaganda from radicals while looking for basic information about their faith on the Internet.

Chicago Muslims fight back against militants’ recruiting of youths

June 16, 2018 at 4:02 a.m.

Sahira Sadiq, of Oak Brook, recalls her teenage son reading an online article after the Paris terrorist attacks and asking about a verse in the Quran with several interpretations, some...

Volunteers serve dinner during their weekly Breaking Bread soup kitchen at LaSalle Street Church. The socially progressive church has a history of turning its members' altruistic ideas into full-scale ministries, such as a legal aid clinic for the poor and a soup kitchen.

Church gives congregants $500 each to do good

August 18, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.

Christmas came early for people in the pews of LaSalle Street Church the first Sunday in September. That morning their pastor handed them $500 checks. The Rev. Laura Truax, pastor...

Vatican extends olive branch to American nuns

August 18, 2019 at 6:27 p.m.

The Benedictine sisters at St. Scholastica Monastery in Rogers Park breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when the Vatican released its long-awaited report on American nuns. Two Vatican investigators had...

Vatican report praises U.S. nuns but urges them to stick to doctrine

June 19, 2019 at 9:15 p.m.

A long-awaited report on American nuns released by the Vatican on Tuesday is being seen as an encouraging and realistic assessment of women who take vows to the church, while...

Archbishop Blase Cupich, shown in September, inherits some financial challenges in taking over the Chicago Archdiocese.

Cupich takes on an archdiocese in the red

August 18, 2019 at 6:26 p.m.

Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich inherited a church last month that has operated in the red for many years and is tens of millions of dollars in debt. But the Archdiocese's...

Cupich calls Obama action on immigration a ‘first step’

August 18, 2019 at 6:20 p.m.

Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich on Wednesday praised President Barack Obama's executive action last week that could protect millions of immigrants from deportation. Cupich, who met privately with the president Tuesday...

Cardinal Francis George attends a rally of students from private Catholic schools at Daley Plaza in 1999.

What does an archbishop do when he retires?

August 18, 2019 at 6:19 p.m.

What does an archbishop do when he retires? Chicagoans will be finding out for the first time, with Cardinal Francis George being the first to reach that milestone in the...

Cupich to get firsthand look at archdiocese’s biggest ills

May 21, 2019 at 2:16 p.m.

Archbishop Blase Cupich will make the first of three visits to ethnic parishes across the city this Sunday, when he celebrates Mass at the predominantly African-American St. Agatha Catholic Church....

Incoming Archbishop Blase Cupich knocks on the front doors before the Rite of Reception ceremony at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Nov. 17, 2014.

Cupich thanks religious orders at prayer service

August 18, 2019 at 6:17 p.m.

Blase Cupich, the new archbishop of Chicago, expressed his gratitude to members of religious orders and lay movements during a Wednesday morning prayer service for them at Holy Name Cathedral....

Blase Cupich becomes Chicago’s archbishop

August 18, 2019 at 6:16 p.m.

Tackling the weight of expectation in Chicago with both gravity and humor, Archbishop Blase Cupich assumed the helm of the Catholic Church in the city Tuesday during an elaborate ceremony...

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