Mao Zedong published one. So did Ted Kaczynski, Ron Paul, and Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist writer who shot Andy Warhol.
One of the world's foremost purveyors of peace -- South African archbishop Desmond Tutu -- stopped by Chicago's InterContinental Hotel on North Michigan Avenue Wednesday to talk about human dignity and to laud those with disabilities.
The Dalai Lama's envoys and Chinese officials disagreed more than they agreed at weekend talks on how to move beyond the unrest in Tibet, one of the Tibetan spiritual leader's representatives said Thursday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao vowed on Wednesday to continue a recently begun dialogue with the Dalai Lama, though he offered veiled accusations the Tibetan spiritual leader is causing more problems than he is solving.
Oprah Winfrey joined Trinity United Church of Christ when she moved to Chicago in the mid-1980s but stopped going -- in part because of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's fiery speeches, according to a published report.
Last week, people across the country tuned in to Rev. Jeremiah Wright's comments during a press conference at the National Press Club. Hopes were high that bridges would be mended.
More than 200 Methodists attended the commitment ceremony Friday of a lesbian couple from Chicago, in defiance of a vote to uphold a church law that says gay relationships are ''incompatible with Christian teaching.''
Sigh. It would be so refreshing to pick up the newspaper and see a story about my alma mater on the front page that didn't make me cringe.
Like hundreds of young men joining the Army in recent years, Jeremy Hall professes a desire to serve his country while it fights terrorism. But the short and soft-spoken specialist is at the center of a legal controversy.
In his first interview since his sermons became a problem for his famous parishioner, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's former pastor says he has wrongly been painted "as some sort of fanatic."
Somehow, instinctively perhaps, this year I sensed it was time for Passover before I checked the calendar. The most significant clue was that I had almost run out of matzo.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright tells PBS’ Bill Moyers that snippets from his sermons at Trinity United Church of Christ, on the South Side, have been taken out of context and offer a faulty picture of his views.
Three years and a few days ago, I was standing in the middle of St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, eating a cone of hazelnut gelato when smoke began to appear from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel.
One of this country's most famous secular cathedrals -- Yankee Stadium -- was transformed into a place of religious worship Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI celebrated mass in the legendary House That Ruth Built.
NEW YORK -- On the day his firefighter son was lost, killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Deputy Fire Chief James Riches also lost some of his Roman Catholic faith.
A Moscow court on Monday convicted a U.S. pastor of smuggling hunting ammunition into Russia and sentenced him to more than three years in prison.
Pope Benedict XVI once again mentioned the clergy sex abuse scandal that has morally and financially rocked the American Catholic Church. But his words were encouraging, rather than excoriating.
The thousands of young Roman Catholics who have journeyed to see Pope Benedict XVI include 65 prep school students sleeping on a cold church floor, who believe everything he says, and a 15-year-old Queens girl with a lesbian sister, who isn't so sure.
Pope Benedict XVI once again mentioned the clergy sex abuse scandal that has morally and financially rocked the American Catholic Church. But his words were encouraging, rather than excoriating.
NEW YORK -- Making a plea for human rights, Pope Benedict XVI warned diplomats at the United Nations on Friday that international cooperation needed to solve urgent problems is ''in crisis'' because decisions rest in the hands of a few powerful nations.
A busload of 50 young Polish Americans left Chicago’s Northwest Side Friday, bound for New York City and an appearance there by Pope Benedict XVI.
NEW YORK---- Addressing the clergy sex abuse crisis this week, Pope Benedict XVI said that it was more important to have good priests than many priests.
Pope Benedict XVI met privately Thursday and prayed with several victims of clergy sex abuse. It was the latest in a series of steps Benedict has taken during his first papal trip to the United States to deal with the scandal that has scarred the American church.
WASHINGTON -- After a dramatic three days in which he put America's clergy sexual abuse scandal front and center, Pope Benedict XVI turned his attention Friday to the original purpose of his first U.S. visit as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Among the faithful who filled Washington's Nationals Park to see Pope Benedict say mass Thursday was Anita Dwyer, 53, of Oak Park, attending with her husband, Tom. They're members of St. Edmund Parish in the west suburb.
When I left the house Wednesday morning, it was supposed to be for a quick run to the Walgreens a few blocks away to pick up a prescription. Instead, I found myself driving west on the Eisenhower, headed for my alma mater, Wheaton College.
Pope Benedict XVI told America's Roman Catholic leaders Wednesday the clergy sex abuse scandal at times was ''very badly handled" -- his harshest criticism yet on the crisis that badly damaged the U.S. church. Benedict's remarks came at a prayer service Wednesday evening with hundreds of American bishops at a national shrine in Washington.
On Tuesday, the pint-sized papal fans screamed as they boarded the Amtrak train at Chicago's Union Station, excited they might soon get a glimpse of Pope Benedict XVI.
WASHINGTON — Pope Benedict XVI, after urging bishops, priests and parishioners to heal the wounds caused by the clergy sex abuse scandal, talked and prayed privately with survivors Thursday in what was believed to be a first-ever meeting between a pontiff and abuse victims.
As Pope Benedict XVI makes public tours of Washington and New York City this week, he won't be seen in the open-top "Popemobile" familiar from video shot in St. Peter's Square.
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE -- Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday he was ''deeply ashamed'' of the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church and will work to make sure pedophiles don't become priests.
Sometimes, you only get one chance to make a first impression. This is Pope Benedict XVI's big chance.
Tamar Manasseh is a triple minority -- black, Jewish and studying to become a rabbi. "As if African-American women don't have enough challenges already, why would you want to go ahead and do something like this?" she says, asking the question that others have posed.
When Pope Benedict XVI makes his first trip to the United States as pope next week, officials from Catholic dioceses across the country will be with him.
The Dalai Lama has told those attending a conference on compassion that dialogue and respect are the tools for transforming enemies. He sidestepped a specific question about the turmoil in his native Tibet.
Texas child welfare officials have brought in mental health professionals and behavioral experts as the agency tries to ensure a sense of normalcy for the more than 400 children removed from a polygamous sect's enclave, an agency spokeswoman said.
For 46 years, crime, recessions and hurricanes proved no threat to the daily ritual of St. Monica School, where the entire blue-and-white uniformed student body gathered outside each morning to join in prayer.
'Death can be funny, right?" That's how journalist Jenniffer Weigel inscribed my copy of her book Stay Tuned: Conversations with Dad from the Other Side, a spiritual memoir about the death of her father, longtime Chicago broadcaster Tim Weigel, who died in 2001 at the age of 56.
MILWAUKEE — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee announced Friday it will lay off nearly a fifth of its workers early next month to try to cut costs.
