Steve Kloehn

Francis George, the archbishop of Portland, Ore., is expected to be named Tuesday as the new leader of Chicago's 2.3 million Catholics, Vatican sources said. A native of Chicago, the...

Rev. Benjamin Chavis' recent announcement that he had joined the Nation of Islam might have bewildered some Christians, but not Rev. Richard Young. Young, a minister at the Second Baptist...

Regional governing bodies of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. cast the deciding votes Tuesday in the most divisive issue to face the church in decades, giving the so-called "fidelity and chastity"...

The proposed ordinance that would give city benefits to homosexual couples would be controversial at any time. But with a vacuum in local Catholic Church leadership following the death of...

Dolly the sheep is not losing much sleep over woolly issues of self-identity, but in the week since she trotted out onto the world stage as the first mammalian clone,...

The leather, the dog collar, the wash-off tattoos--it was all a little joke, Pat Boone's people explained after Boone appeared on a nationally televised awards ceremony looking like the world's...

Snail darters, spotted owls and California red-legged frogs found an unexpected champion on Capitol Hill last year--a coalition of evangelical Christians. For years evangelicals have drawn the national spotlight with...

There is a quiet that now surrounds the empty throne of the archbishop of Chicago--peace for some, but a creeping anxiety for others whose lives and work have revolved around...

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's inner circle of family and friends drew closely around him Wednesday, as the dying prelate spoke by phone to the pope and the president. The Archdiocese of...

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who rose from humble beginnings to become one the most influential Catholic figures in modern history, died early Thursday after he made his final illness a public...