A devout Catholic, Jerry Lundergan hopes his Stations of the Cross with life-sized statues and a 70-foot cross will bring ...

Two Catholic churches in Hazleton founded more than a century ago by Italian immigrants are consolidating parishes, as are ...

The Archdiocese of Chicago celebrated the historic election of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV on June 14 at Rate Field, home of the White Sox.

Mass on Sunday will be held rain or shine at park across from the old Our Lady of Lourdes church on Endicott Avenue.

CHICAGO (RNS) — At Rate Field, the home of the Chicago White Sox, some 30,000 celebrated a native son, Pope Leo XIV, Saturday ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Purgatory:" 1031. "The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment ...

Chicago will honor its hometown pope, Leo XIV, with a public celebration on Saturday at Rate Field, home of the White Sox.

On May 8, the day Pope Leo XIV was elected as our new Holy Father, he told the faithful, “Today is the day of the Prayer of ...

The former Saint Jean Baptiste Church building in Lowell, Mass., once had a very famous altar boy—one of the fathers of the 1950s “Beat Generation,” Jack Kerouac, famous for his ...

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