Manya Brachear

In an effort to forestall foreclosure on its downtown headquarters, the Lubavitch Chabad of the Loop, Gold Coast and Lincoln Park filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, buying additional time for a...

Seeking to heal historical rifts between religious congregations and the gay community, organizers of this year's Pride Parade have moved the faithful closer to the front lines. More than a...

Tired of being pushed to the proverbial back of the bus by Roman Catholic leaders, a group of American nuns rolled into Chicago on its own set of wheels Wednesday...

The Archdiocese of Chicago has not yet joined 43 other Roman Catholic institutions in suing the federal government over a mandate to pay for birth control, but local Catholic leaders...

Doug Burnett learned the power of vision and charity as a teenager when his parents gave glasses to a friend who couldn't afford a pair. So when the American Jewish...

The teen preacher addressed each person in the pew: the grandmother, the teenage usher, the unemployed father, the single mom. "You are only blessed because you can be a blessing...

Christine Yonan doesn't blame the children who picked on her autistic son. She doesn't blame their parents. She blames the staff at his Northwest Side Catholic elementary school because she...

Private Vatican correspondence published in a new Italian best-seller reportedly includes a plea by Chicago's Cardinal Francis George that a Roman Catholic group drop plans to honor Illinois Gov. Pat...