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Cupich begins transfer of power, focuses on immigration, violence, drugs

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

Three deliberate thuds echoed through Holy Name Cathedral on Monday night, as the next leader of 2.2 million Catholics signaled his arrival to the Chicago Archdiocese. Blase Cupich began his...

Cupich’s knock Monday night signals next archbishop’s arrival

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

In the first dramatic ritual of his installation as Chicago's next archbishop, Blase Cupich on Monday night will knock on the front doors of Holy Name Cathedral, where predecessor Cardinal...

Soon to lead Chicago Catholics, Cupich wasn’t always set on religious life

August 18, 2019 at 6:15 p.m.

During his earliest steps toward becoming Chicago's next archbishop, Blase Cupich wasn't sure religious life was for him. As a boy growing up in Nebraska, he and his siblings listened...

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.

Q&A with Chicago’s next archbishop

August 18, 2019 at 6:15 p.m.

Incoming Archbishop Blase Cupich sat down with the Tribune for an interview during his last days in Spokane, Wash. The following are excerpts from that conversation. What are your priorities...

Under the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, sixth-graders wait for a classroom to empty while lugging two classes worth of books this week at St. Agnes of Bohemia Catholic School in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.

Cupich to lead Catholic school system diverse in needs, benefits

June 18, 2018 at 6:40 a.m.

The fate of more than 83,000 schoolchildren will be in the balance as Bishop Blase Cupich takes the reins of Chicago's archdiocese next week. But the schools they attend are...

Saving Catholic schools has been Cardinal George’s personal cause

August 18, 2019 at 6:08 p.m.

To help tens of thousands of Chicago-area Catholic school students, Cardinal Francis George has gone to Springfield, launched a $350 million fundraising campaign and just last week put the archdiocese's...

Cardinal: Closing 7 schools unavoidable in cash-strapped district

May 21, 2019 at 2:01 p.m.

In one of Cardinal Francis George's final acts before retirement, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago will shutter seven elementary schools and consolidate six more by next school year, church...

Volunteers, including Tiffany Lyons who work with people with low literacy skills learn what it feels like to read with difficulty as she reads aloud a paragraph in which the words are reversed during a workshop at the Chicago Jobs Council in Chicago.

Chicago Jobs Council helps develop job developers

June 17, 2018 at 5:23 a.m.

Jennifer Levitt can't forget the woman who never returned. She had come to the Michael Barlow Center at St. Leonard's Ministries hoping Levitt, a job developer, could help her find...

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

In fundraising pitch, George says Catholic schools in his will

June 17, 2018 at 5:29 a.m.

Cardinal Francis George has announced that he has written Chicago's Roman Catholic schools into his will. "While waiting for the Pope's appointment of the ninth Archbishop of Chicago, Archbishop Blase...

Incoming archbishop eschews mansion, will live at Holy Name Cathedral

June 17, 2018 at 5:35 a.m.

Taking a page from the pope's playbook, incoming Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich will forgo the historic Gold Coast mansion that has housed the city's archbishops for more than a century,...

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