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The buyer hopes to turn the building — empty for years as former parishioners and the Archdiocese of Chicago fought over its fate — into an events space.
La respuesta para estas iglesias tiene que ser mejor que cerrar las puertas con candado.
The preliminary recommendation was supposed to prevent removal of the stained glass.
The first step in the landmarking process protects the building at the heart of a contentious neighborhood fight from being dismantled or sold.
Feligreses protestaron la remoción de las ventanas originales y en apoyo de asignar el estatus de preservación.
Preservationists say the designation would save St. Adalbert Church from being demolished by the Archdiocese of Chicago, which closed the church in 2019. The hearing is on Monday.
Pittsburgh synagogue gunman will be sentenced to death for the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack
Eleven worshippers at Tree of Life synagogue were killed by Robert Bowers in 2018. Bowers expressed hatred of Jews and white supremacist beliefs online before the attack.
Respect and coercion clash in Sweden. Should Quran burning be safely squelched, is Dante’s ‘Inferno’ next?
Vice President Harris said that when she was in law school in the 1980s, she had a ‘Jesse Jackson for President’ bumper sticker on her car.
Manischewitz, purveyor of traditional Jewish foodstuffs, is developing a ribald personality on Twitter. Not everybody gets the joke.
Kenneth Lewis, 62, entered the plea Thursday to a felony count of aggravated sexual abuse in a deal with Cook County prosecutors that saw other charges against him dropped, including predatory criminal sexual assault.
Hundreds filled Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Lake View for a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Blase Cupich, who honored the group as a ‘covenant of people.’
The 86-year-old pontiff sounded breathless and hoarse as he greeted the public in St. Peter’s Square, two days after being discharged from the hospital for abdominal surgery.
Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms because of his “700 Club” television show.
The Vatican said there were no complications in the three-hour surgery. The pope will be hospitalized for several days, and papal audiences are canceled through June 18.
The attorney general didn’t name John D. Murphy. The Archdiocese of Chicago settled claims over Murphy but doesn’t include him on its list. And his order hasn’t named abusers — but said Saturday it hopes to “in the near future.”
People from many states have traveled to a small Missouri town to view the perfectly preserved body of a nun who died four years ago and was exhumed in April.
The Rev. John Hannah, senior pastor of New Life Covenant Church Southeast, led hundreds in the “Prayer on the 9” march.
The cardinal’s questions on how the Illinois attorney general’s abuse claims were substantiated “are particularly perplexing because many of those 125 names” came from the Archdiocese of Chicago, Raoul said.
Special antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt said antisemitism ‘threatens not just the safety of Jews, but the strength of our democracy.’
The blaze caused more than $78,000 in damage to the shrine, a sacred site to many Chicago-area Catholics.
Preserved mostly in devotions, particularly in chapels built of mud and straw in rural communities, New Mexican Spanish is different from any other Spanish dialect.
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