Each May, the Church honors the Blessed Mother. The words of our most recent popes about Our Lady also relate to their focus ...

The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

Pope Francis had a special devotion to the Marian icon, Salus Populi Romani (Salvation or Health of the Roman People), which ...

Chicago's St. Mary's church, connected to Pope Leo XIV's past, captures local interest amid restoration efforts.

Mary’s “Let it be done to me according to Thy Word,” in response of the Angel Gabriel’s greeting is the response required of all Christians to God’s Plan. The Solemnity of the Immaculate ...

is preserved from sin and the corruption of death (the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, Mary, ever virgin). "Then the dragon was angry with the woman ...

It also appears to be the assumption when university leaders negotiate with students ... in that their structures are light and easily moved. The quasi-monastic solemnity of neo-Gothic university ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, became the first American pope in 2025. He began his religious life at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Dolton, Illinois, where he served as an altar ...

To people who grew up in the old St. Mary of the Assumption parish on 137th Street, it’s no surprise that one of their own, Cardinal Robert Prevost, will be part of the conclave that will gather ...

To date, there have only been two such invocations – one for the Immaculate Conception and another for the Assumption of Mary. The church has had to make clarifications that some declarations by ...