Steve Kloehn

It is easy, after nearly 27 years, to forget how popes used to be. It is easy to forget a time when the pope was an Italian churchman who more...

It is easy, after nearly 27 years, to forget how popes used to be. It is easy to forget a time when the pope was an Italian churchman who more...

On a gently bouncing plane, 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean, Pope John Paul II slowly shuffled down the aisle, out of his personal cabin toward several dozen reporters in...

Just moments after his fellow cardinals elected him pontiff in 1978, Pope John Paul II took a moment to marvel at the unexpected turn of events with a key supporter,...

Unable to sidestep its financial woes any longer, the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago announced its biggest school shakeup in years Monday, with plans to close 14 schools, consolidate two more...

On my first full day on the religion beat, more than four years ago, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin announced that he was going to Death Row to meet with a convicted...

Consider the value of a simple thing: What is the worth, for instance, of a snapshot of a deceased parent? To the child, it might mediate memories, perhaps, or be...

Deathbed conversions have long held a particular fascination. The dying, after all, would seem to be closer to ultimate truths than the rest of us. With one foot in this...

With conflict escalating around her and her husband called to active military duty, Chaya Shaul and her five children left their home in Israel this week to stay with her...

Whatever his other qualities might be, the mayor of the town of Nablus, in the Palestinian territories, has a good bead on the American psyche: Got a problem? Let's solve...