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Pope Leo XIV greets participants in an audience with the Jesus Youth International Conference in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Leo will meet with survivors of clergy abuse during upcoming Latin America trip, Vatican says

By Associated Press

October 27, 2026 at 11:50 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV will meet with survivors of clergy sexual abuse during his upcoming trip...

Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Vatican confirms Pope Leo’s Latin America trip after post-surgery checkup

By Associated Press

October 26, 2026 at 12:25 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV will proceed with his planned Nov. 6-17 trip to Uruguay, Argentina and...

The Rev. Ken Fleck presides over Mass at St. George in Tinley Park to help celebrate his 50th anniversary as a priest June 7, 2026. (Jeff Vorva/for the Daily Southtown)

Longtime priest Kenneth Fleck from St. George in Tinley Park cleared and reinstated after allegations

By Evy Lewis

October 26, 2026 at 3:26 p.m.

The Rev. Kenneth Fleck was cleared of allegations of child sexual abuse and reinstated, the...

A pair of Abraham Lincolns stand for the national anthem on March 25, 2026, during a ceremony marking Navy Pier as a symbolic starting point of Route 66. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Illinois 250: Meet the state’s most influential people, from architects to a pope and future presidents

By Kori Rumore

July 5, 2026 at 10:52 p.m.

Chicago is where everyone from architects to a pope and future presidents have made a...

Newly consecrated Bishops, from left, Marc Hanappier, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, Michael Goldade and Pascal Schreiber wearing their miters and holding their pastoral staffs, stand at the end of their consecration ceremony in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Vatican excommunicates schismatic bishops and priests, and warns their followers

By Nicole Winfield

July 2, 2026 at 9:52 a.m.

The Vatican responded aggressively Thursday to a traditionalist group that consecrated bishops without the pope’s...

Andi Borucke, of Orland Park, prays during the veneration of the St. Francis of Assisi relic on June 28 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Orland Park. (Jeff Vorva/Daily Southtown)

Relic of St. Francis visits Orland Park church 800 years after his death

By Jeff Vorva

June 29, 2026 at 12:24 p.m.

A first-class relic of St. Francis of Assisi, a fragment of his bone, was on...

US fans react after a World Cup Group D match against Australia on June 19, 2026, in Seattle. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

Column: 12 takeaways from the summer of love … and soccer, from a Cubs history lesson to gifting the pope

By Paul Sullivan

June 28, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

Jed Hoyer needs a history lesson, America feels the love from World Cup fans, Caitlin...

Former Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski gifts a baseball from the final out of Game 1 of the 2005 World Series to Pope Leo XIV during a visit to the Vatican on June 24, 2026. (Instagram)

‘The most special moment’: A.J. Pierzynski recounts gifting White Sox’s World Series baseball to Pope Leo XIV

By Tess Kenny

June 28, 2026 at 10:07 a.m.

Former White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski gifted Pope Leo XIV the baseball from the final...

Pope Leo XIV speaks during a meeting with the employees of the United Nations World Food Programme in Rome, Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Leo XIV warns wars are ‘fed’ faster than people as aid money dries up

By Giada Zampano

June 22, 2026 at 3:48 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV said Monday that wars are being sustained more easily than people are...

The Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, executive director of Live Free Illinois, speaks alongside other faith leaders and activists at a press conference at Chicago City Hall on June 22, 2026, to call for a gun violence prevention office. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Chicago faith leaders call for new Department of Gun Violence Prevention

By Jake Sheridan

June 22, 2026 at 6:09 p.m.

A coalition of Chicago faith leaders and activists wants the city to create a new...

A man who appears to have his hands restrained in front of him is removed from a vehicle by a federal agent and led into the Broadview Immigration Customs Enforcement processing facility on June 18, 2026. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

ICE arrests shift to courthouses and immigration check-ins as enforcement intensifies in Chicago area

By Laura Rodríguez Presa

June 19, 2026 at 2:51 p.m.

Immigrant attorneys and advocates report a recent uptick of arrests at routine check-ins, and criminal...

Chicagoland Nurse Honor Guard members, from left, Stacey Boetto, Cindi Goron, Charlene Gallion and retired nurse Joanna Hume participate in a ceremony recently at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood. The Honor Guard attends funerals and services for nurses, conducting a short ceremony releasing them from their duties. (Cindi Goron)

Caps, capes and candles: Chicagoland Nurse Honor Guard sends off caregivers with ceremony

By Melinda Moore

June 18, 2026 at 3:36 p.m.

The nearly 500-member Chicagoland Nurse Honor Guard conducts ceremonies at funerals of nurses 'to honor...

Cardinal George Mundelein walks on the field during the 28th International Eucharistic Congress that he hosted at Soldier Field in June 1926. An estimated 500,000 people attended the large open-air mass. (baiduhai historical photo)

Vintage baiduhai: 1 million Catholics converge on city for International Eucharistic Congress

By Kori Rumore

June 18, 2026 at 2:41 p.m.

For five days in 1926, Chicago was the center of the Catholic world as it...