With pressure mounting from inside and outside the Church hierarchy, an order of nuns has rebuked a Chicago-area member for volunteering at an abortion clinic, telling her that such actions are "in violation of her profession."
Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The worship band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service.
Saturday will be my 10-year-old son Vasco's first Halloween. He arrived in the United States from Africa just a few months ago, and as far as we know there is no Oct. 31 holiday in his native Malawi.
Five years after he was removed from public ministry amid allegations of sexual misconduct with children, former Roman Catholic priest John Calicott has been defrocked, the Archdiocese of Chicago said Tuesday.
“Crash” director Paul Haggis has severed his ties with the Church of Scientology, in part because of the organization’s stance against gay marriage. Haggis wrote a letter addressed to Tommy Davis, the head of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre. In it, Haggis said he was disappointed by the church’s tacit denial of gay rights and its backing of California’s gay marriage ban.
Those running for Illinois governor have their share of differences, but religion is not really one of them.
The Rev. Dan Willis is passing the collection plate in reverse. He will give you money to go to church. For the last three weeks, his Lighthouse Church of All Nations in Alsip has raffled a combined $1,000 to attendees at the three Sunday services. Big surprise, but attendance has shot through the chapel roof.
ChicagoCatholicNews described the original movie--where people who just died watch a movie of their lives, the bad times and the good--as including a segment where "a black man shows up at the door of a white woman. She smiles seductively and he -- literally -- licks his lips."
This weekend, at synagogues around the globe, Jewish congregations will read from the Torah the story of Noah, his ark and the big flood that nearly brought about the end of the physical world.
Do you find yourself adding more to your to-do list, even though you already feel overwhelmed?
VATICAN CITY -- A 19th-century priest whose courageous work with leprosy patients in Hawaii has been likened to the efforts of those battling the stigma of AIDS was elevated to sainthood Sunday by Pope Benedict XVI, along with four other Catholics he hailed as heroes of holiness.
In his wide-ranging new book, Cardinal Francis George argues that liberal and conservative Catholicism are both flawed interpretations of the role of the Catholic Church in contemporary life.
