Religion
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Biden: Pope told me that I should 'keep receiving Communion'
Oct 30, 2021 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Face to face at the Vatican, President Joe Biden held extended and highly personal talks with Pope Francis on Friday and came away saying the pontiff told hi...
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'Bringing together the cultures': All-white Arlington Heights church welcomes first Black pastorOct 30, 2021 1:00 am - After 23 years of Lutheran ministry in predominantly Black communities in the South, Michael Johnson was tapped to lead an all-white congregation in Arlington Heights. I...
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Bartlett pastor reinstated after archdiocese says it found insufficient evidence of sex abuseOct 30, 2021 1:00 am - The pastor of a Bartlett church is being reinstated after an investigation found insufficient evidence to prove allegations of improper conduct, Cardinal Blase Cupich sa...
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Remember your loved ones at All Saints' Day serviceOct 28, 2021 11:00 pm - First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights' Music Ministry will present Howard Goodall's "Eternal Light: A Requiem" for its communitywide All Saints' Day Service. Wh...
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Presidents and popes over the years: Gifts, gaffes, grief
Oct 28, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis on Friday, he won't kiss the ring. Biden, who has met with Francis three times and with two previous p...
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Prayer for kidnappers deeply rooted in mission group's faith
Oct 28, 2021 7:00 am - When Amish gather for worship each week, they regularly sing the solemn, German-dialect hymns that their spiritual forebears composed nearly five centuries ago in a cond...
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Prayer for kidnappers deeply rooted in mission group's faith
Oct 28, 2021 7:00 am - When Amish gather for worship each week, they regularly sing the solemn, German-dialect hymns that their spiritual forebears composed nearly five centuries ago in a cond...
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Huntley's St. Mary's Church continuing its ministry at sister parish in HaitiOct 28, 2021 1:00 am - A Huntley church ministry that helps an isolated village in Haiti says their ministry will continue despite the recent kidnapping of Christian missionaries there. Member...
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A new book on faith from popular author who died in 2019
Oct 27, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Christian author Rachel Held Evans left behind a legion of loyal readers when she died in May 2019, at the age of 37. Last June, a children's book she'd ...
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House approves bill would remove 'conscience' as basis for refusing vaccine
Oct 27, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois law has for more than four decades protected those who oppose providing or receiving medical treatment because of their religious beliefs. Now Dem...