Steve Kloehn

A city hall reporter I used to work with, in a city not unlike Chicago, had a useful description for most of what he covered: the statements, the speeches, the...

Thursday night on prime time television, two Catholic priests, huddled at the back of a soaring gothic sanctuary, exchanged the following hushed words: Priest one: "This is what I want."...

By all reports, the Holy Spirit had a busy summer. Many Protestant Christians, either formally or informally, pray for the Holy Spirit to make himself felt through their denominational deliberations....

Decorum might discourage the Swiss ambassador to the United States from wearing his heart on his sleeve, but apparently it allows a hint from the crown of his head. There,...

For somebody whose desktop collection includes the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Bhagavad Gita and a dozen or so Bible translations, the recently published guidelines on religion in the...

From the bleachers of Wrigley Field to the plush seats of the Lyric Opera, Chicago has long been a center of real entertainment with real performers, an unaffected city that...

Chicago Ald. Burton F. Natarus was doing his best to pump out hot air Friday morning, but finally he had to acknowledge that his patriotic oratory was doing little to...

Mystifying as the Cubs can be, they are a lot easier to talk about than religion. So it's no surprise that Archbishop Francis George has spent more time over the...

Archbishop Francis George returned Wednesday, a day after he was appointed to lead the Roman Catholic Church in Chicago, but questions about his new role followed him to the Pacific...

In the next few weeks, officials of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago will present their new boss, Francis George, with a report describing a church body that is paying its...