Italian Catholics like my grandfather and great-grandfather—along with other Catholic immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe—may not have been black, but they weren’t quite white either.

Vevette Hill-Nwagbaraocha attends All Saints Catholic Church, also on the north side. She, too, is hopeful and excited about Pope Leo, regardless of how he identifies. But his lineage, she said, ...

No Kings protest in Nashville, Tenn., I sought those bearing religious-oriented posters to explore their perspectives.

Poland is a country still steeped in Catholic custom and fiercely ... wearing suspenders and black boots with white laces — classic identifiers of Eastern European far-right nationalism.

Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch, Wisconsin Watch June 10, 2025 This story is part of Public Square, an occasional photography ...

Daystar Boutique offers more than smoke. Many call it a hive for locally-sourced products, a place where community is ...

Catholic churches are celebrating the national holiday of Juneteenth this week by honoring the freedom won by formerly enslaved Black Americans at the end of the Civil War.

As the Popemobile approached the White Sox admirers, Pope Leo XIV — who hails from the Windy City — could be seen mouthing, ...

Pope Leo XIV, recently chosen to take over for the late Pope Francis, is a Chicago White Sox fan. As is perhaps fitting for the first American pope in history. Fans found him attending a game during ...

While reporting relatively low levels of attendance at Mass, almost half of US adults (47%) say they have a personal or ...

Preorders for the upcoming Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet expansions, Black Bolt and White Flare, are starting to roll out at major US retailers ahead of the release next month on July 18.

Just for fun, Andrew Sorensen drew Ojito — a one-eyed black cat adopted from a foster ... Andrew has designed hundreds of cat-themed stickers. There's a cat that resembles Harry Potter, a ...