Dems’ abortion line may soften
The Democratic Party has proposed changes to the party's platform on abortion rights with a new focus on reducing the number of abortions, in an overture to evangelical Christians and...
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Cardinal lifts the veil on abuses
The sexual abuse of children happened on his watch. And so for the first time, Cardinal Francis George on Tuesday opened the books on a litany of failures by church...
SHASHI TANDON: Fulfilling Hindu priestly duties and starting a quiet revolution
Amid the noise and bustle of downtown Chicago, the groom rode a white horse, shaking to Indian drumbeats in procession to the Palmer House Hilton hotel. Inside, the bride and...
As river rises, grave markers sink
At Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, a sacred Jewish burial ground, there is a section near the Des Plaines River where the tombstones are sinking. Morris Kaplan's and Rose Neiman's...
Parish, public await Pfleger’s next move
For the first time in a long time, Rev. Michael Pfleger is keeping quiet. The white Roman Catholic priest, with a voice that melds biblical inspiration with defiance, has been...
A state dinner in honor of the pope, without the pope
Among those invited to President Bush's White House dinner Wednesday night in honor of Pope Benedict XVI were Catholic Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito...
3 years in, pontiff blazing own path
Most Americans awaiting Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to the U.S. this month likely know little about him beyond his fluffy white hair, his taste for red Prada shoes and...
Young Muslims put faith in Facebook
Sabia Naz from Hounslow wanted to know if it was haram -- forbidden -- for pious Muslim women to show their feet in public. Ali Imdad, a student from Leicester,...
Spiritual trip brings leader to Chicago
Robed in gold and black vestments with a jeweled cross over his forehead, His Holiness Karekin II, patriarch of the worldwide Armenian Apostolic Church, anointed a Chicago Armenian church Wednesday...
‘Saint Death’ comes to Chicago
Inside a botanica in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, she stands on the counter in all her glory: a smiling skeletal woman dressed in a long robe and veiled like a...