Aha! In the Christian calendar, today is the Feast of the Epiphany, or, as I like to think of it, the feast of Aha!
DETROIT — Pope Benedict XVI has selected a Michigan native as the new archbishop of Detroit.
Happy New Year! A fresh start. A new beginning. The chance for do-overs, spiritual lessons to be learned, wisdom to be acquired, blessings to be discovered.
By early January, many Americans are done with Christmas -- ready to go on New Year's diets and get the kids back to school.
Each year, as the calendar prepares to flip to a new beginning, I like to look back on the conversations I've had with people over the previous 12 months to find gems of spiritual wisdom.
DALLAS -- Evangelist Billy Graham is changing membership from a Dallas church to one near his retirement home in South Carolina.
For decades, Theresa Coghlan had heard stories about her great-great-grandfather's role in founding Holy Family Parish. But it wasn't until 1991, when she first saw his name -- James O'Shea -- inscribed in a stained-glass window at the church that the stories began to form a family history. "When I saw that window, it pulled all the stories together that my aunts had told me," said Coghlan, 78, who now lives in Hinsdale. "Since then, I have become very attached to my family history and the history of this church."
Worship services might still be the nation's most segregated hour, but fewer congregations are now completely white, according to a new study.
The Midwest’s oldest Jewish congregation said “goodbye” today to the man some called “Obama’s rabbi.”
VATICAN CITY---- Pope Benedict XVI urged a world confronting a financial crisis, conflict, and increasing poverty not to lose hope at Christmas, but to join in "authentic solidarity" to prevent global ruin.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- About 400 churchgoers promised their pastor they'd dress like Jesus as a hard-to-miss reminder of the holiday's religious roots.
President-elect Barack Obama issued a statement about the death Tuesday of Arnold Jacob Wolf, rabbi emeritus at KAM Isaiah Isreal, which is located across the streets from Obama’s home in Hyde Park:
Jews worldwide will light the first candle on their Hanukkah menorahs Sunday evening, adding candles for seven more nights.
The Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay $1.375 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that a priest sexually abused a teenage boy at Five Holy Martyrs Church from 1987 through 1992.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a boy who was sexually abused by former priest Daniel McCormack, an attorney for the family said Wednesday. Kenneth Cunniff said the settlement calls for $1.1 million to be paid to the boy, who is 16, and $100,000 to the boy's mother. In September, the archdiocese agreed to pay $2.5 million to the boy's younger brother, who also was abused by McCormack.
Set on Christmas Eve in a seaside village north of Dublin in a home populated by hard-drinking, down-on-their-luck Irishmen, Conor McPherson's play "The Seafarer" is not what you'd call light holiday fare.
From Gov. Blagojevich's boyhood church to a West Side congregation whose pastor prayed with the governor, politics seeped into the conversations at area churches Sunday. In interviews, churchgoers from the Serbian and African-American communities -- some of whom said they supported the governor in the past -- said they were deeply troubled by his alleged misdeeds. But many also said the church is a place of forgiveness.
It's a seasonal crime perpetrated by the ultimate grinch -- snatching sweet baby Jesus, so tender and mild, from an al fresco nativity scene.
This week, I sat in a Chicago screening room with white knuckles and sweaty palms, a knot in my stomach, heart racing and an urge to jump out of my seat.
Gov. Blagojevich prayed with several ministers at his home Friday morning and told them he's innocent of federal corruption charges and will be vindicated.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the Grinch. Oprah Winfrey is the Sugar Plum Fairy. John Edwards is the Red-faced Reindeer. Jesse Jackson is the Nutcracker. John McCain is Scrooge, and Sarah Palin is the Snow Queen.
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday the global financial crisis is a result of the quest for short-term gains at the expense of the common good and said the widening gap between rich and poor is a threat to world peace.
"Merton is, in a sense, the lost soul of the 20th century, looking for redemption, looking for recovery, looking for God."
MINA, Saudi Arabia — After pelting a symbol of the devil with stones, Muslim pilgrim Hatim Mohammed al-Sakr knelt and prayed that one day soon all sorts of devils will be removed from his homeland, Iraq — among them, that American forces will soon leave.
