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Notre Dame players celebrate beating Villanova in Rome on Nov. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Villanova had Pope Leo’s support, but Notre Dame wins both games in Rome: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime experience’

By Andrew Dampf

November 1, 2026 at 2:43 p.m.

Villanova had the pope’s support and many more traveling fans. Notre Dame prevailed on the...

Christ United Methodist Church in Rockford member Mark West holds his necklace before church services on Sept. 27, 2026. The necklace was crafted from broken stained glass after a fire in February. "It gives me a connection to the church and to God. It shows that something that is broken can be resurrected," he said. (Ryan Rayburn/for the baiduhai)

A stained glass window of the crucifixion was shattered in a church fire. Worshippers transformed the broken pieces into symbols of renewal.

By Angie Leventis Lourgos

November 1, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

After a stained glass window of the crucifixion was destroyed in a church fire, worshippers...

(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...

Members of Chabad of Northwest Indiana sing as their menorah is lit on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Remembering the light amid dark times

By Michelle L. Quinn

December 21, 2025 at 1:44 p.m.

In a particularly long, absurd year marked by violence toward Jewish people across the world,...

Kathleen Ericksen uses American Sign Language to speak with Robert before a Mass Dec. 13 at Our Lady of the Woods Catholic Church in Orland Park. (Melinda Moore/Daily Southtown)

Sign language Masses ‘rooted in compassion,’ build relationships with deaf community

By Melinda Moore

December 23, 2025 at 10:11 a.m.

It’s not always easy for Christians who are deaf or hard of hearing to find...

Pope Leo XIV greets faithful as he arrives in St. Peter’s Square on the occasion of the last Jubilee audience, at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo XIV summons world’s cardinals for a key assembly to help him govern the church

By Associated Press

December 20, 2025 at 12:54 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for two days of meetings to help...

FILE – Christmas trees and Santa Clauses decorate the entrance to the beach in Haffkrug, northern Germany, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. (Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Everything you need to know about Christmas — and how it has evolved into a global holiday

By Luis Andres Henao

December 20, 2025 at 11:54 a.m.

Originally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas has evolved into a global...

Bishop Richard Moth speaks during a press conference announcing him as the new Archbishop of Westminster, replacing Cardinal Vincent Nichols as the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, in the Throne Room of Archbishop’s House, Westminster, London, Friday Dec. 19, 2025. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Pope names new archbishop of Westminster as part of generational shift in English-speaking hierarchy

By Nicole Winfield

December 19, 2025 at 12:39 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV named a new archbishop of Westminster on Friday in another high-profile appointment...

Oakwood Vines created a custom collection of wines in Lake Forest to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Church of St. Mary in Lake Forest. (Rebecca Quackenbush)

Lake Forest’s Church of St. Mary and a local winery create a custom wine collection for 150th anniversary

By Myrna Petlicki

December 18, 2025 at 3:54 p.m.

A custom collection of five wines was created by Oakwood Vines in Lake Forest in...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, right, and his successor Ronald Hicks arrive to lead a Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Dec. 18, 2025. Pope Leo XIV has accepted Dolan's resignation and named Joliet Bishop Hicks to replace him. (Charly Triballeau/Getty-AFP)

Pope Leo XIV names Joliet Bishop Ronald Hicks as archbishop of New York

By Evy Lewis

December 18, 2025 at 3:34 p.m.

Bishop Ronald Hicks, the current bishop of Joliet, Illinois, replaces the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan...

Then-Auxiliary Bishop Ronald A. Hicks, left, meets with Pope Francis on Dec. 12, 2019, just before Hicks was named bishop of the Joliet Diocese. (Diocese of Joliet)

Pope Leo XIV to name Joliet Bishop Ronald Hicks as next archbishop of New York: report

By Evy Lewis

December 17, 2025 at 2:38 p.m.

A longtime ally of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, Joliet Bishop Ronald Hicks has been selected...

Two men hold an Israeli flag while attending a menorah lighting ceremony hosted by the Chabad Center for Jewish Life of the Loop and Gold Coast on Dec. 16, 2025, at Chicago’s Daley Plaza. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

At menorah lighting, Chicago’s Jewish community mourns Australia beach attack

By Tess Kenny

December 17, 2025 at 3:42 p.m.

Days after an antisemitic assault killed 15 people at one of Australia’s most popular beaches,...

Rabbi Levi Shemtov speaks to the crowd before he lights the Menorah during the annual National Menorah Lighting in celebration of Hanukkah, on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US Jewish groups urge heightened security at public events after Hanukkah attack in Australia

By David Crary

December 15, 2025 at 5:38 p.m.

Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up...