Francis Samaan’s body is in Jordan, but his heart is in Sudan. The third-year theology student sits in a quiet commons area ...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian ...

Among the attendees will be members of Hyde Park’s Catholic Theological Union (CTU), which has close ties to the new pope. Pope Leo XIV graduated with a Master’s in Divinity from CTU.

A new humanitarian organization that has U.S. backing to take over aid delivery to starving civilians in Gaza said Wednesday that it expects to begin operations before the end of the month ...

Call it the art of rebranding. President Donald Trump has a new proposal for the redevelopment of Gaza — and it is decidedly less flashy sounding. Just months after saying the U.S. should take ...

The United Nations has said it will not take part in a US-backed humanitarian operation in Gaza because it is not impartial, neutral or independent, as Israel pledged to facilitate the effort ...

Six Augustinians from the Catholic Theological Union in Hyde Park, where Leo XIV earned his Master's of Divinity in 1982, are going this Friday. While they don't expect to meet Pope Leo XIV in ...

Israeli military strikes killed at least 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in an intensification of the bombardment as President Donald Trump ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Robert Francis Prevost when he was a student at Catholic Theological Union in 1978 ... School and McCormick Theological Seminary, Okorie and Reid said.

It's been more than two months since Israel hermetically sealed all of Gaza’s borders and banned the entry of all food, water and other lifesaving aid, once again weaponizing hunger against the ...

But, in her 20s, she attended Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, the hometown of the newly elected pope. "They decided to send me to this Catholic seminary as the first female candidate for ...

Decades ago, Prevost returned to his hometown of Chicago and the Catholic Theological Union. Prevost earned his Masters in Divinity there in 1982. The Hyde Park building across the street from ...