Steve Kloehn

Some things haven't changed since Pope John Paul II arrived here in 1979 on his first overseas trip as pontiff. The chanting, weeping, wildly cheering millions who greeted him then...

There are times, in the daily coverage of religion, when small-n news seems to speak a fundamentally, radically different language from the upper-case Good News Christians are always proclaiming. One...

At the very time of year when principles of peace, brotherhood, goodwill and joy are supposed to infuse religious and secular worlds alike, many people are finding that news events--the...

Looking at the moon and the calendar, this was supposed to be an easy year for Muslims observing Ramadan, the holy month of fasting. After all, the way Islam's lunar...

The archdiocese of Chicago has one year to find a substantial source of outside funding for Catholic schools or it will have to make fundamental changes in its educational system,...

In a wonderful scene near the beginning of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," two portly gentlemen wander into Scrooge's office on Christmas Eve to make a cold call--figuratively and literally--for...

When two of Rev. Jesse Jackson's sons bought the largest Budweiser distributor in Chicago this week, many commentators chuckled at the memory of dad boycotting Anheuser-Busch 16 years ago. But...

Until Friday morning, you could be pretty sure that anybody who was singing or playing Christmas carols was trying to sell you something. But the Friday after Thanksgiving, as recognized...

It would be easy to write off Sister Mary Kay Flanigan of Chicago as just another political pot-stirrer, if you didn't know anything about her history. It would be easy...

An impending Methodist church trial over a homosexual marriage ceremony in Chicago has attracted the attention of one of the most notorious anti-gay groups in the nation, setting the stage...