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FILE – Military Services Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks during a press conference at a plenary assembly in Baltimore on Nov. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Archbishop of the US military says Catholic soldiers should not serve on firing squad

By Associated Press

October 12, 2026 at 1:17 p.m.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the Catholic Church’s pastoral services to Catholics in the U.S....

Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to hospital for lung nodule surgery, Vatican says

By Nicole Winfield

October 12, 2026 at 7:17 a.m.

The Vatican said Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to the hospital on Tuesday in...

Lorena Lopez, left, and Jacqueline Ramirez-Lopez participate in Mass at Old St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in the Loop on Oct. 3, 2026. After Mass, Cardinal Blase Cupich blessed a delegation, including Ramirez-Lopez, that is traveling to Rome to meet with Pope Leo. (Arthur Maiorella/baiduhai)

Chicago clergy set to visit Pope Leo to advocate for immigrant detainees: ‘This is a mission from Christ’

By Laura Rodríguez Presa

October 12, 2026 at 1:27 p.m.

The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership are scheduled to make a pilgrimage to Rome...

The Rev. Daniel Sather of Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ in Oak Lawn, stands outside of his church in 2022. On Easter, a longtime tradition of decorating a cross with flowers from members' gardens will take place for the first time in half a decade. (Melinda Moore/Daily Southtown)

Oak Lawn church brings flowery Easter tradition back to life

By Melinda Moore

April 18, 2025 at 11:46 a.m.

On Easter Sunday at Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ in Oak Lawn, a decades-old...

Pope Francis arrives at the end of the mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Vatican opens solemn run-up to Easter with recovering Pope Francis on the sidelines

By Nicole Winfield

April 17, 2025 at 8:34 a.m.

The Vatican on Thursday opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering...

Congregants gathered at the neighborhood Starbucks on Western Avenue at 8:30 a.m., before congregating in Market Square, for a brief outdoor service and singing, and to take part in a Palm Sunday procession from Market Square to the Church of the Holy Spirit, at 400 East Westminster in Lake Forest. (Gina Grillo/ for the Pioneer Press)

Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest holds Palm Sunday procession to begin Easter week

By Gina Grillo

April 14, 2025 at 4:17 p.m.

The Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest invited the community to begin their...

Planning and design experts walk by the Greenstone Church while touring historic Pullman on Thursday, April 16, 2015 before a series of public meetings about establishing Pullman National HIstoric Park. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Pullman community steps on the gas to reopen historic Greenstone Church

By Janice Neumann

April 14, 2025 at 9:54 a.m.

Neighbors have raised $20,000 to reopen Greenstone Church in Pullman, which has been shuttered for...

FILE – The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington, March 9, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

State Department wants staff to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias during Biden’s term

By Matthew Lee

April 13, 2025 at 3:35 p.m.

As the Christian world commemorates Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday, the State Department...

People visit Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Historic domes of Hagia Sophia are renovated to protect the landmark from earthquakes

By Robert Badendieck

April 13, 2025 at 2:20 p.m.

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia...

Convalescing Pope Francis opens Holy Week with in-person greeting in St. Peter’s Square

By Colleen Barry

April 13, 2025 at 8:37 a.m.

A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing...

Britain’s King Charles III, center, flanked by Ignazio LaRussa, President of the Italian Senate, left, and Lorenzo Fontana, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, addresses the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Pope Francis meets privately with King Charles and Queen Camilla during his Vatican convalescence

By Colleen Barry

April 9, 2025 at 3:17 p.m.

Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Wednesday at the...

Brian Burch speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination for to be Ambassador to The Holy See, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Chicago-area man up for Vatican ambassador defends recent cuts to US foreign aid

By Peter Smith

April 8, 2025 at 3:52 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the Vatican defended many of the administration’s foreign-aid...

Pope Francis arrives at the end of a mass in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Sunday, April 6, 2025, part of the jubilee of the sick and the health workers. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope makes surprise appearance at St. Peter’s Square, 2 weeks after leaving hospital

By Silvia Stellacci

April 6, 2025 at 9:01 a.m.

Pope Francis made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass...