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Lynda Levin, right, looks on as Cheryl Goodman decorates a stone during a vigil to honor of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel at the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana in Munster, Indiana Wednesday October 7, 2026. The stones will be added to memorial rock garden outside the federation. (Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Jewish Federation of NWI remembers victims of Oct. 7 massacre

By Jim Masters

October 8, 2026 at 1:40 p.m.

Many members of the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana knew a family member, friend or...

FILE – Television evangelist Jim Bakker poses in front of the Water Park in Columbia, SC, one of the attractions at his Heritage USA, March 19, 1987. (AP Photo/Lou Krasky, File)

Jim Bakker, who lost his ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire in sex and money scandals, dies at 86

By Jim Salter

October 6, 2026 at 6:16 a.m.

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around...

President Jimmy Carter and Pope John Paul II are shown at the White House Saturday, Oct. 6, 1979. (AP Photo)

Today in History: Pope John Paul II visits the White House

By Associated Press

October 6, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On Oct. 6, 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a weeklong U.S. tour, became the...

Pope Leo XIV gestures as he arrives at the Pontifical Lateran University on the occasion of the opening of the academic year, in Rome, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is ‘crying out’

By Anton L. Delgado

November 17, 2025 at 5:16 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete...

Valparaiso University’s first Lutheran president, William H.T. Dau, is joined by faculty members in this 1926 portrait. (Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections/provided)

Valparaiso University marks 100 years of Lutheran control

By Doug Ross

November 16, 2025 at 4:48 p.m.

One hundred years ago, the Lutheran University Association purchased a struggling Valparaiso University and made...

FILE – Pope Francis dons a headdress during a visit with Indigenous peoples at Maskwaci, the former Ermineskin Residential School, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Maskwacis, Alberta. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Pope Leo XIV returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of reckoning with colonial past

By Nicole Winfield

November 15, 2025 at 1:57 p.m.

The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts from its vast ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples...

Film Director Spike Lee and his wife Tonya Lewis Lee leave at the end of an audience of Pope Leo XIV with actors and directors from the cinema, at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo XIV celebrates cinema with Hollywood stars and urges inclusion of marginal voices

By Nicole Winfield

November 15, 2025 at 12:28 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett, Greta Gerwig and dozens of other Hollywood...

Pope Leo XIV speaks during the International Conference “Raising Hope for Climate Justice” at Mariapolis Center in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Oct. 1, 2025. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images North America/TNS)

Pope Leo XIV reveals his favorite movies

By Christie D'Zurilla

November 14, 2025 at 11:42 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV released a list of his favorite films ahead of a planned meeting...

A yellow and white banner hangs at Holy Name Cathedral on May 9, 2025, following the election of Pope Leo XIV. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Vintage baiduhai: Holy Name Cathedral’s 150th anniversary

By Kori Rumore

November 13, 2025 at 7:34 p.m.

Here's a look back at some of the significant events that have defined Chicago's Holy...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is honored at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition annual Dr. King Breakfast on Jan. 20, 2025. After being hospitalized for a rare neurological disorder, Jackson was discharged from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to his family in a Monday statement. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

Rev. Jesse Jackson hospitalized in Chicago, Rainbow/PUSH confirms

By Tess Kenny

November 12, 2025 at 10:22 p.m.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader and founder of the Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH...

Silenced for years, Oak Park’s Seabury Chime to sound again at Grace Episcopal Church

By Paul Eisenberg

November 13, 2025 at 9:56 a.m.

Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park will ring its century-old Seabury Chime bells once again...

FILE - Archbishop Paul Coakley speaks to the media before the Beatification Ceremony for Stanley Rother in Oklahoma City, Sept. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

US Catholic bishops select conservative culture warrior to lead them during President Donald Trump’s second term

By Tiffany Stanley

November 11, 2025 at 12:46 p.m.

U.S. Catholic bishops elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as their new president, choosing a...

The Rev. Stephen Cliffgard Lee speaks Nov. 9, 2023, at a fundraiser for his legal defense at a Channahon church. (Mike Nolan/Daily Southtown)

Orland Park pastor Stephen Lee, accused in Georgia election interference, on list of Trump pardons

By Evy Lewis

November 10, 2025 at 9:31 p.m.

Stephen Cliffgard Lee, pastor at Living Word Lutheran Church in Orland Park, received a federal...