Nearly 100 American men and women from the United States are currently being considered for sainthood. And many Catholics ...

The first American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church — just like the first American chosen as pope — once walked among the people of Chicago.

In the seventh century, the Church in Rome adopted the practice of Adoration of the Cross from the Church in Jerusalem, where a fragment of wood believed to be the Lord's cross had been venerated ...

CHICAGO HEIGHTS | About 50 people bid a tearful, final farewell Wednesday to what was left of St. Joseph Catholic Church at a ceremony to open the church's 91-year-old time capsule.

A local historian went to Rome for the first time during the conclave. But he wasn’t expecting ‘that’ kind of history.

Three North Americans are among recent appointees to Vatican dicasteries that address issues of ecumenism and interreligious ...

Sexual abuse allegations have been made against a Chicago priest who served eight Chicago and suburban parishes over the past ...

The Rev. Curtis Lambert — who has “strenuously denied” the allegations, per a letter from Cardinal Blase Cupich — was pulled ...

HEBRON, Ill. (WLS) -- First responders were at a church fire in McHenry County Thursday night. It happened at St. John's ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his crosier as he celebrates Mass “for the care of creation” on the grounds of the Borgo Laudato Si’ ...