One has danced atop the dugout at Rate Field. Another earned a Topps trading card for throwing a perfect strike. And a third ...

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, ...

In newly formed Black congregations, the famous abolitionist and others were able to live out their faith—and affirm their ...

Thousands of people from across the region gathered Saturday at the home of the Chicago White Sox for a Mass featuring a ...

Five years after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis while he was in police custody sparked national and global calls ...

Overall, besides worship services, participation in other religious activities and programs has increased or remained the ...

More commonly known as “Juneteenth,” it became a federal holiday in 2021 and serves as a fitting day to remember the first Black Catholic ... Peter’s Catholic School, an all-white parish ...

The story of the AIDS movement is one of regular people: students, bartenders, stay-at-home mothers, teachers, retired lawyers, immigrants, Catholic nuns, newly out gay men who had just arrived in New ...

Some had lost friends or lovers. Some felt a moral calling. Some were just trying to balance their sexual karma. Many were angry. Most had no medical background or professional credentials – just a ...

For Monsignor Ray East and his brother Nathan, their faith feeds their music and their music feeds their faith.

The line is classic Narcisse, whose writings have always struck me as bold, Black, and sincere—with ... mainstream titles—remain predominantly white and male. The time and place should be ...