Across Chicago, the number of Catholics is dwindling. In just a few decades, those identifying with the faith have dropped by hundreds of thousands, according to data from the Archdiocese of ...

Catholic church in Illinois vastly underreported clergy sex abuse, Kwame Raoul finds At the start of a five-year investigation by the attorney general, Cardinal Blase Cupich told seminarians the ...

Minerva Guerrero prays during Sunday Mass at St. Adalbert’s Catholic Church in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood on Dec. 9, 2018. Here’s how a church ceases to be a Catholic place of worship: ...

Chicago church plans to turn shuttered South Side liquor store into grocery store The building is at the corner of 79th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue — an area with a history of violence.

The Catholic church's social service arm in Chicago uses lobbying firm that also represents abortion provider Catholic Charities uses Cozen O’Connor for state government lobbying.

It was a bittersweet Easter Sunday at several Chicago Catholic churches, as they prepare to consolidate parishes and each one celebrated its last Easter before closing for good.

Dozens of Catholic churches and schools in Chicago have closed. NPR's Noel King talks to David Heinzmann of the "Chicago Tribune" about his story examining the archdiocese's accounting practices.

As the pope and church leaders meet in Rome to discuss the Roman Catholic Church’s future, they face a chasm between conservatives and progressives in the pews. An exterior statue of Jesus ...

There’s also a Catholic connection to the guy we named DuSable Lake Shore Drive after. Chicago’s first non-native permanent settler, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, had ties to the Catholic Church.