After the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death, the news reverberated across the Chicago area, Naperville included.

Thousands in the faith community across Chicago gathered Sunday to celebrate Easter, marking a moment of hope during dark ...

Here's a look at the well-choreographed transition process and what experts including the Rev. Robin Ryan of the Catholic ...

Local Catholics will gather at noon today at the Cathedral of St. Paul to remember Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 ...

The Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cupich, shared his reaction to the news of what he called a "profound loss" ...

The 67-year-old St. Thomas More — a striking example of modernist Catholic ecclesiastical design — will hold its last liturgy ...

His predecessors are — John Paul ... Catholic bishops in China with the Communist government there. And that was controversial. He felt that it was important to have dialogue and to keep the ...

In the Pullman neighborhood, enough money has been raised to keep a church afloat, but for parishioners at a Catholic church on the Southwest Side, this will be the last Easter Sunday service before ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, called for " a church for the poor ," a church that would reach out to what he called the ...

It’s considered uncouth to campaign for the role of the next pope, but there are currently several front-runners believed to ...

He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul ... per church rules. New rules allow a pope to be buried in a church other than St. Peter ...