1997: The Field Museum bought the T. rex named Sue at auction for $8.36 million. It went on display in 2000, and moved into new digs upstairs at the museum in 2018.

Cardinal Cupich recognized Sen. Dick Durbin with a lifetime achievement award, not knowing it'd be a flashpoint in the U.S. Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis' more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican ...

Chicago's Catholic Church leader thinks today's parishioners are "politically homeless" because of their views on politically charged topics like immigration and abortion. The big picture: The ...

Sen. Dick Durbin will not accept a Catholic award recognizing his immigration work, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich said Sept. 30. The announcement follows objections from some bishops over Durbin's ...

The Archdiocese of Chicago broadcasts Sunday Mass from Holy Name Cathedral on ABC7. Mass from Holy Name Cathedral airs on ABC7 and streams on ABC7Chicago.com at 9:30 a.m. on Sundays. The Archdiocese ...

The Rev. Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day pilgrimage Monday from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York to bring attention to the cause of immigrant children. Graf’s ...

Rev. Gary Graf said one reason he is walking to bring attention to the cause of immigrant children is because his own great-grandparents arrived at Ellis Island as immigrants.

Pope Leo XIV said U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin’s record should be considered in its totality and that Americans should search together for the truth on moral questions.

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.” ...

Pope Leo also was asked about the meeting U.S. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had Sept. 30 with 800 top U.S. military officials and Hegseth’s comment that “the only mission ...