Steve Kloehn

News leaked out of the Vatican last week that Pope John Paul II plans to proclaim a patron saint for politicians at a special mass on Nov. 5. That happens...

Even as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago dips into savings at the rate of $1 million a month to keep churches and schools open, the groundwork has quietly been...

When last seen in the news columns, Rev. B. Herbert Martin was taking criticism from all sides for trying to reconcile the families of African-American beating victim Lenard Clark and...

On a blackboard below a bronze crucifix, Rabbi Laurence Edwards wrote out some basic vocabulary words and then tried to help the class pronounce them: kosher, shofar, Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah....

Pope John Paul II has done what he can, in large ways and small, to end capital punishment. The Dalai Lama has spoken out repeatedly against the death penalty. Dozens...

While Joe Lieberman was here in Chicago this week, pumping some old-time religion into presidential politics, a legion of clerics was roaming around the halls of the United Nations, trying...

Turning to God and Mayor Richard Daley for support, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman worked Monday to win the hearts of Chicago's leading African-American pastors. In a speech to...

At the Liturgy of the Solemn Installation of the Seventh Archbishop of Chicago in 1982, Joseph Bernardin imagined his arrival as seen through the eyes of an outsider--from way, way...

Despite the tanker cars of ink devoted in the last week to Joe Lieberman's Jewishness, the political experts are having a hard time making much of it. In the end,...

Remember the spring Luis Palau came to town for his famous "Say Yes, Chicago" crusade? Few others do, either. In 70 appearances around Chicago during April and May of 1996,...