The Lakewood City School District is considering major changes to its elementary school landscape, with three buildings under consideration to be repurposed.

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

After a series of closures by the Chicago Archdiocese, Christ Our Savior Church in South Holland has bragging rights as Pope ...

In Chicago, New Orleans and beyond, elated worshipers and priests celebrated their immediate sense of connection with Pope ...

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had come to a decision on who ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, three days after the 69-year-old Chicago-born missionary made history ...

At a time when many churches are grappling with shrinking membership rolls and resources, four Lewiston-Clarkston Valley ...

Catholics in Maryland and across the nation attended their first Sunday mass since Pope Leo XIV was elected into the papacy.

The faithful gathered for Sunday Mass for the first time since Chicago native Robert Prevost was selected as the next pontiff. His election marks a meaningful new chapter for the church nationwide.

We pray for the Pope. We pray that he'll be a great pastor and a great beacon of hope and light to the world,” said Father Tim Holeda of Co-Cathedral of St. Thomas More.