CHICAGO — Two men who said they were sexually molested decades ago by a notorious Catholic priest who was imprisoned for molesting other boys have agreed to a settlement of $880,000 from the ...

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Officials at the Archdiocese of Chicago said this week they plan to close four Chicago area schools struggling with declining enrollment and mounting debt and merge more than a dozen churches in the ...

The Archdiocese of Chicago has announced the debut of a new “natural burial” option at one of its Chicago-area cemeteries, reportedly the first such Catholic offering in the state and one that ...

The Archdiocese of Chicago announced Thursday the latest round of parish mergers and closures as part of Cardinal Blase Cupich's "Renew my Church" initiative. The mergers mostly affect parishes in ...

CHICAGO -- The Archdiocese of Chicago and the Diocese of Joliet have canceled public celebrations of Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Chrism Mass and Easter as restrictions on public gatherings continue amid ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A priest with connections to a Chicago school has been asked to step aside after a sex abuse allegation surfaced. Father Daniel McCarthy, the Pastor Emeritus at St. Elizabeth of the ...

A West Side man was talking to his imprisoned cousin in 2013 when he allegedly floated the idea of adding him to a string of bogus sexual abuse allegations filed against defrocked Chicago Catholic ...

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The Archdiocese of Chicago has canceled classes at all schools in Cook and Lake counties, starting Monday, amid COVID-19 concerns. A statement from the archdiocese also says Mass is suspended ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Two men who said they were sexually molested decades ago by a notorious Catholic priest who was imprisoned for molesting other boys have agreed to a settlement of $880,000 from the ...