Steve Kloehn

The controversy over formal church approval for Catholic university theologians brought with it years of buildup, historic implications and coast-to-coast press coverage. But that is not what got the nation's...

James Long, a seminarian with a fine baritone voice, was asked to sing "Amazing Grace" at a mass last year, and he made it through the first couple of lines...

In these peculiar times for the craft of biography, scholar George Weigel's assertion that his new book, "Witness to Hope," looks at Pope John Paul II "from inside" might inspire...

Rabbis, on the whole, are not opposed to a little disputation. And when the Chicago Board of Rabbis asked University of Chicago historian Peter Novick and Rabbi Herman Schaalman to...

Archbishop Francis George, the surprise choice to lead one of the most influential Catholic dioceses in America, had been in Chicago less than a year when he first voluntarily brought...

A newspaper religion writer, in 1999, is not a lonely person. Phone lights pulse. E-mail messages sprout on the computer screen two, three at a time. Mail washes into the...

An interfaith campus ministry office that Northeastern Illinois University abruptly closed Monday should never have been allowed to open in a university building because its presence violated the 1st Amendment,...

Cardinal Francis George said today that the Archdiocese of Chicago will celebrate the new millennium with three major events, the largest of which will take place June 24 when 60,000...

It's a bit like comparing citrons and dates, but two recent contributions to Catholic-Jewish dialogue offer a poignant sense of where those interfaith relations have been stuck for the past...

A major coalition of religious and government leaders signed on to a pledge Thursday to fight gun violence, led by a public health expert with a plan to cut Chicago's...