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

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

A surprising find has been made by Italian archaeologists. They discovered an Ancient Roman bath complex at the Appian Way ...

The 67-year-old St. Thomas More — a striking example of modernist Catholic ecclesiastical design — will hold its last liturgy on May 25 and will no longer function as a church after that.

All Roman Catholics are ... with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around the world.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago ... Old World-inspired styles that marked Chicago Catholic church architecture just a few decades earlier. (Nor was it sleek, steel-and-glass-style ...