Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

A historic preservation organization is lobbying to have the childhood church of Pope Leo XIV designated as a Chicago ...

This Sunday’s readings offer practical, mystical and spiritual resources that the new pope will have to rely on and remember ...

During her life, her Christ Universal Temple was the largest church congregation in Chicago and the largest church in the world headed by a Black woman.

I would suspect that people are very proud that Chicago produced a pope, and it testifies to the fact that there’s a lot of ...

The Commission on Chicago Landmarks approved a $1.2 million grant for restoration of the bell tower. The vast majority of the ...