Steve Kloehn

The execution of Andrew Kokoraleis was a defeat for, among others, many of Chicago's religious leaders. But the defeat seems only to have stiffened opposition to capital punishment in the...

As President Clinton arrived in Central America this week to tour the area devastated by Hurricane Mitch, it is entirely possible that many Americans had forgotten the disaster he was...

On or shortly after Jan. 1, 2000, observers most likely will have the opportunity to watch closely as a few deeply held beliefs, religious and secular, turn to dust. The...

For Rev. Jennie Bogard, a miracle felt something like this: She was driving home from her doctor's office last fall, just about to get onto the Stevenson Expressway, when she...

Two dozen Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic pilgrims from Chicago, led by Cardinal Francis George and Metropolitan Iakovos, spent most of the last two weeks traveling from Chicago to Istanbul...

In this ancient city, where one of the world's great churches sports four Islamic minarets, where Ottoman sultans built their monumental mosque in the style of a Christian basilica, religion...

You have to marvel at the spirit that inspired the publishers of a small church magazine 99 years ago, when they decided that small was no longer the way to...

For those who hear the words "pro-life" as nothing more than a cheap euphemism for "anti-abortion," Pope John Paul II's homily at Wednesday's mass in the cavernous Trans World Dome...

Pope John Paul II compared abortion and euthanasia to the slavery of black Americans Tuesday, probing a sore spot in U.S. history as he challenged the nation to provide legal...

The pilgrims come from all over Mexico, from the high-rise housing of this vast city, from the most distant rural outposts. Most often they arrive in lumbering buses, which let...