The world’s smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily ...

ANALYSIS: It might seem like the Holy Father has far more pressing priorities. Yet the reality is that the artificial-intelligence revolution poses enormous social challenges for the Church.

The Illinois General Assembly passed a $55.2 billion dollar budget for 2026. It includes a boost for public schools, but not as much as the State Board of Education had hoped for. Samantha Smylie, ...

Kids in Kalamazoo will get another opportunity to play street hockey this summer. (June 5, 2025) ...

At a time when fewer people say they are practicing Catholics, church leaders are hoping an American pope may turn that ...

Recently uncovered genealogical records reveal that the Pope’s grandfather, born Salvatore Riggitano in Sicily, arrived in ...

A man was fatally shot Monday night in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side. The man, 29, was found on the ...

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino will be this year’s recipient of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Honorary Heart of ...

Last week, Illinois officials took possession of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in the Des Plaines River near Joliet. The move ...

It’s time once again to dive into another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about ...

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up has taken steps to acquire his humble childhood home before the property can be sold off to the highest bidder at a planned auction. Pope Leo, who was ...