Religious split healing in Midwest
Beneath the blue, onion-shaped dome of Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral in Des Plaines, hundreds of Russian Orthodox faithful filled the sanctuary Sunday for a historic moment that took 80 years...
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REV. GARY GRAF: Priest walks immigration tightrope in Waukegan
The overflowing crowd of babies in christening dresses and tiny white tuxedos filled Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Waukegan as Rev. Gary Graf approached the baptismal font. As two...
Priest walks tightrope in divided Waukegan
The overflowing crowd of babies in christening dresses and tiny white tuxedos filled Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Waukegan as Rev. Gary Graf approached the baptismal font. As two...
Rev. Jerry Falwell: 1933 – 2007
Rev. Jerry Falwell, a four-star general in the Religious Right's culture wars and a televangelist whose Moral Majority group forged conservative Christians into a formidable political force, died Tuesday after...
Prelate sees need for church in lives
As Cardinal Francis George marks his 10th anniversary as spiritual leader of Chicago's 2.3 million Roman Catholics, he sat down Thursday with the Tribune to reflect on his decade of...
Cardinal in hospital after fall
Cardinal Francis George was hospitalized with a slight hip fracture Saturday after he slipped and fell inside a Chicago church while blessing Easter baskets, archdiocese officials said. George, 70, was...
Churches sing the gospel according to U2
On Sunday night the front pews of the Lutheran church will be moved to make room for dancing. On the right will stand a band whose lead singer strikingly resembles...
Rev. Moon and the black clergy
Central United Community Church stands on Chicago's South Side as a storefront sanctuary, serving the needy and spiritually hungry who pass through its doors. The modest church has worn wooden...
REV. MYLES SHEEHAN: Physician has a higher calling
Tending to patients or teaching medical students at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Rev. Myles Sheehan sometimes wears his Roman collar along with his white physician's lab coat. More...
Good news for George on cancer
Cardinal Francis George got the good news Monday that his cancer had not spread beyond the bladder and that he will not need radiation or chemotherapy, his doctors said. "Oh,...