Steve Kloehn

Catholic Charities of Chicago, one of the largest social service providers in the state, faces an unprecedented $3.5 million deficit, may lay off as many as 30 employees and is...

Oak Park native Edward Egan got the full treatment last week in the 24 hours that followed his appointment as Catholic archbishop of New York. Clergy, activists and pundits measured...

Civil disobedience isn't what it used to be. The arrest of Chicago's Methodist bishop, C. Joseph Sprague, and 190 other protesters Wednesday outside the United Methodist Church's quadrennial general conference...

A bronze plaque, set into a granite plaza outside the Ohio statehouse, bears the official motto of the Buckeye State: "With God, all things are possible." The U.S. Court of...

`Next year in Jerusalem!" That prayer, a triumphant call of hope, echoed over Jewish dinner tables around the world this week. At the sacred feast of Passover, the celebration concludes...

A decade after school closings caused a deep rift in the Archdiocese of Chicago, church officials are again considering extensive shutdowns to stabilize the struggling Catholic education system. A stinging...

The Vermeer String Quartet first approached Franz Joseph Haydn's "The Seven Last Words of Christ" the way most elite chamber groups have in recent decades--as a musical masterpiece that made...

Rev. Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, a Catholic priest from Muenster, Germany, was working on his doctoral dissertation for the University of Notre Dame in 1990 when he found his way to...

The controversies within Judaism were complex enough when they could all be gathered up in the tidy question, "Who is a Jew?" Those four words served as shorthand for a...

This week Jewish-Catholic relations are a spectator event. The pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a legend in a white cassock, slowly makes his way toward the ancient Western Wall,...