Steve Kloehn

Just about the time the sting begins to fade away, some 80 percent of America's Jews get another slap in the face from Orthodox politicians in Israel who have argued...

A year after Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's death cloaked the city in silence, he inspired a different kind of quiet Friday--a peace that marked worshipers at a memorial mass at Holy...

A new video arrived this week, with a most unlikely star. He speaks with a slow, sometimes halting cadence. He enunciates each syllable and measures punctuation with great care, as...

Religious dialogue is never easy. Agreement evaporates, even among the closest partners in theology and culture, as the failure of the Episcopal-Lutheran Concordat last summer proved. Talks stumble, even when...

Anybody who introduces yet another fat, glossy gold, terribly-serious-looking biography of Pope John Paul II has a tough sales job ahead. It's not quite like wheeling an ice cream cart...

The first reviews of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople's visit to the United States are trickling in, and they can be summed up in one word: Huh? The 57-year-old patriarch...

In 1926, in the hills of Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes was convicted of teaching Darwinian evolution to schoolchildren. Teaching evolution had become a crime in Tennessee a year earlier,...

At the landmark Second Presbyterian Church on the Near South Side, a priceless collection of stained-glass windows, including the largest array of Tiffany windows in a Chicago church, has deteriorated...

One million New Testaments were en route to the National Mall on Thursday as the men's movement Promise Keepers and city officials prepare for what is expected to be one...

At age 78, Henry Altman is willing to indulge those of us in the talk trades, as we press him to tell his story, to ruminate and reminisce and comment...