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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 will be admitted to hospital Tuesday for lung nodule surgery, Vatican says

By Nicole Winfield

October 12, 2026 at 4:32 p.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...

A Syrian man observes the destroyed Jobar Synagogue, also known as Eliyahu Hanavi, in Jobar neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syria’s dwindling Jewish community can visit one of the world’s oldest synagogues again

By Bassem Mroue

December 29, 2024 at 8:42 a.m.

The handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the...

About 75 people attended a Greatest Gift celebration on Christmas Day at First Baptist Church in La Grange, which included a church service, music and meal served by volunteers. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

La Grange church’s Greatest Gift celebration draws 75 on Christmas day

By Hank Beckman

December 27, 2024 at 3:26 p.m.

La Grange’s Caring Place Foundation held its 22nd Annual Christmas Greatest Gift celebration and dinner...

People gather for a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony at Fountain Square, Dec. 7, 2023, in downtown Evanston.

Time-limit on display of Menorah in Lake Forest’s Market Square draws criticism

By Daniel I. Dorfman

December 27, 2024 at 3:45 p.m.

A decision by Lake Forest officials limiting the presence of a Menorah in Market Square...

Mezzo-soprano Janet Jensen Reynolds is accompanied by members of the Kaia String Quartet during a Dec. 22 performance of Handel’s "Messiah" at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in La Grange. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

Area performers bring ‘Messiah’ to life at La Grange church

By Hank Beckman

December 27, 2024 at 12:10 p.m.

Emmanuel Episcopal Church in La Grange hopes to make its first presentation of Handel's 'Messiah'...

Kwanzaa celebrates African Americans' heritage and begins the day after Christmas.

Today in History: Kwanzaa first celebrated

By Associated Press

December 26, 2024 at 4:00 a.m.

On Dec. 26, 1966, Kwanzaa was first celebrated.

A Cook County Jail detainee attends Cardinal Blase J. Cupich’s Christmas Day Mass at the jail on Dec. 25, 2024. (Tess Crowley/baiduhai)

Cardinal Blase Cupich celebrates Christmas Mass with Cook County Jail detainees

By Sarah Freishtat

December 25, 2024 at 5:36 p.m.

The Christmas morning Mass at the jail is an annual event for Cupich, who used...

Conservator Corrine Long, of Dover, N.H., restores nearly 300-year-old painted angels on walls of Old North Church, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Centuries-old angels uncovered at Boston church made famous by Paul Revere

By Michael Casey

December 25, 2024 at 9:41 a.m.

The painted angels — with round childlike faces and wings — once were among the...

Sparklers are lit before the start of the Krampus Fest parade outside of Martyr’s in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood, Dec. 14, 2024, as a part of Central and Eastern European folkloric tradition, Krampus is a half-goat, half-devil-like monster who punishes misbehaving children during the Christmas season. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Scary ghost stories … for Christmas? There’s a long tradition and it goes way beyond Krampus

By Christopher Borrelli

December 25, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

Let's remember that Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a ghost story. Telling dark and...

Dan Gazdic, Briana Lee and Nancy Kujawinski lead carols during a holiday block party on Dec. 14, 2024, in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood. (Addison Annis/for the baiduhai)

For Chicago’s interfaith families, Christmas and Hanukkah are a chance to explore new traditions

By Caroline Kubzansky

December 25, 2024 at 6:37 a.m.

Hanukkah beginning on Christmas Day brings already-intertwined traditions into even closer proximity for some families.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, center, backdropped by St.Peter’s Basilica, delivers her speech in Rome, Italy, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024 during the opening ceremony of a new pedestrian area in the nearby of the Vatican, just ahead of the Jubilee Year, an event expected to draw millions of visitors to the Eternal City. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis kicks off a yearlong Jubilee that will test his stamina and Rome’s patience

By Nicole Winfield

December 24, 2024 at 3:42 p.m.

Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the...