With the passing of Pope Francis, I was frankly apprehensive about the prospect of a new pope. Who would he be? Would he carry forward Francis’ legacy...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
It is my conclave story captured in one frame: Moments prior to the proclamation extra omnes (outside everyone), I chanced upon a scene from the video coverage...
On Chicago’s far south side in the early 1930s, as the Great Depression was hitting the many steel mill laborers in his parish, Father James Tort started...
There’s nothing quite like holding down a screaming toddler while a nurse jabs their little leg with a vaccination needle. It can feel like an act of betrayal:...
Malachy Fallon, the first lay executive director of the Xavier Society for the Blind, “happened to be at the right place at the right time” when he began his...
Just hours after the election of Pope Leo XIV, media discourse was already making much of his Chicago roots, including discussing which sports teams he...
“The whiter it gets, the pope-ier I feel!” shouted Gabriel Carberry. Carberry, 27, who came from the Scottish Highlands to St. Peter’s Square to witness the...
This story will be updated regularly as more information becomes available The Catholic Church has a new pope: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., 69, of...
In his homily on the morning of May 7, at the votive Mass of the Holy Spirit before the papal conclave began, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the...
