After the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death, the news reverberated across the Chicago area, Naperville included.

Here's a look at the well-choreographed transition process and what experts including the Rev. Robin Ryan of the Catholic ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, just hours after an Easter Sunday appearance, many are wondering who will be next.

Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

On April 20, 1940, she married the love of her life, George Springer, at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in her hometown. In 1943, Lillian and George moved to Chicago, Illinois, where they built a ...

They came from around the world to rejoice in the naming of the first millennial saint, but they ended up bidding farewell to ...

This is Latin for “having had mercy and choosing him” — a phrase that Francis chose as his motto when he was elevated to ...

Though he never visited, the pontiff's tenure reached into Chicago ... Catholic Church, and in a 2023 interview, he said, "being gay is not a crime." Those are values that Old Saint Patrick's ...