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(From right) Villanova basketball player Jasmine Bascoe along with Villanova President Peter M. Donohue presents Pope Leo XIV with a basketball in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Oct. 31, 2026, during an audience with some 7,000 university representatives ahead of the Eternal City Tip-Off, a men’s and women’s college basketball doubleheader in Rome on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo tells Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams that he is neutral, but ‘Prevost has another opinion’

By Andrew Dampf

October 31, 2026 at 8:26 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday told the basketball teams from his alma mater, Villanova, and...

Students from St. John Of The Cross School pack up nonperishable food items during the Parish’s annual food drive Oct. 24 in Western Springs. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

St. John of the Cross food drive draws 450 volunteers, donations from across Western Springs

By Hank Beckman

October 31, 2026 at 5:01 a.m.

St. John of the Cross Parish continued its decades-long tradition at its annual Harvest Saturday...

Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope says ‘most urgent’ challenge facing AI race is need for institutional ethical framework

By Associated Press

October 30, 2026 at 3:08 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV on Friday told a Vatican gathering of artificial intelligence researchers and experts...

Sister Bernadette Eaton, of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, holds a crucifix outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Judge orders Trump administration to allow clergy access at Broadview immigration facility for Easter holy days

By Madeline Buckley

March 31, 2026 at 1:10 p.m.

A federal judge on Tuesday allowed clergy members from the Chicago area to minister to...

Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the Illinois Municipal League in Vatican City on March 30, 2026. (Vatican Media)

Matteson Mayor Sheila Chalmers-Currin leads delegation of municipal leaders to meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican

By Evy Lewis

March 31, 2026 at 6:03 p.m.

A delegation of Illinois mayors led by Matteson Mayor Sheila Chalmers-Currin was granted an audience...

Pope Leo XIV presides over Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on the Catholic feast of Palm Sunday, commemorating Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Leo XIV rejects claims that God justifies war in Palm Sunday Mass message

By Nicole Winfield

March 29, 2026 at 8:35 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday rejected claims that God justifies war and prayed especially for...

Miserable was the word for the weather all over Chicago on March 29, 1964. Mrs. Helen Marshall holds the hand of her daughter Gale, 3, as they cross a slushy Randolph Street at State Street. (John Vogele/baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: The snowiest Easter ever in the city

By Kori Rumore

March 29, 2026 at 7:37 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 29, according...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during the swearing in for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

At Pentagon Christian service, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth prays for violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’

By Tiffany Stanley

March 25, 2026 at 3:17 p.m.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since...

Terese Jackway, left, of Naperville, Lynne Sherman, of Lisle, and Lisa Yost, of Naperville, make signs during a "No Kings" protest sign-making event at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Naperville, March 16, 2026. (Josh Boland/baiduhai)

At ‘No Kings’ protests, clergy and protesters of faith plan to rally against Donald Trump

By Angie Leventis Lourgos

March 25, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

A diverse array of Chicago area religious leaders are gearing up to take part in...

Thousands gather outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador as the casket of slain Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero is carried into the church for funeral services, March 26, 1980. The Catholic archbishop was slain as he officiated at a Mass at a San Salvador hospital. (AP Photo/Valente Cotera)

Today in History: Catholic Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero shot

By Associated Press

March 24, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On March 24, 1980, Catholic Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador, an advocate for the...

Angel Garcia Sr. and his wife, Jillian Bernas Garcia, walk with their three children, Angel Garcia Jr., 4, Rose Garcia, 1, and Patricia Garcia, 5, after picking up Patricia from St. Hubert Catholic School in Hoffman Estates on Feb. 18, 2026. The Garcias are actively trying to prevent the school from being closed. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

St. Hubert parents appeal to the Vatican to keep Catholic school’s doors open

By Hope Moses

March 24, 2026 at 11:45 a.m.

When the Archdiocese of Chicago decided to close Hoffman Estates-based St. Hubert Catholic School, supporters...

Artist Pablo Serrano stands by a new painting March 10, 2026, in his Pilsen studio. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Locals with birthright citizenship hope the practice prevails as Supreme Court to weigh in

By Angie Leventis Lourgos

March 22, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case Trump v. Barbara are slated to begin April...

FILE – Mons. Angelo Becciu presides over an eucharistic liturgy at the St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Vatican appeals court declares mistrial in the ‘trial of the century’ against a cardinal

By Nicole Winfield

March 17, 2026 at 2:12 p.m.

The Vatican appeals tribunal declared a mistrial Tuesday in the Holy See’s big “trial of...