The cold limestone edifice of the Bishop’s Mausoleum stands on a bluff overlooking Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside. A bronze statue of the angel Gabriel sits atop blowing a trumpet, and if you could ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Special events began Monday to honor 25 years since the passing of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. The beloved leader of the Archdiocese of Chicago died in 1996. It's been 25 years since ...

At Notre Dame, Obama referred to Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. “That must have had Cardinal Bernardin turning over in his grave,” writes Elizabeth Lev. Then, she finds an extraordinary quote from the ...

Theologian Julie Hanlon Rubio was involved with the Catholic Common Ground Initiative — initially founded in 1996 by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin to lessen divisions in the church — when the ...

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who led the Archdiocese of Chicago for 14 years, died 25 years ago today. Here’s a look back at his remarkable life. The son of an immigrant Italian stonecutter, Joseph ...

Reverend R. Daniel Conlon is transferring in from Steubenville, Ohio. In this Intelligence Report: Bishop Conlon comes in with a unique connection to Chicago. The connection is to one of Chicago's ...

When Cardinal Joseph Bernardin was falsely accused of sexual abuse in 1993, Chicago attorney James A. Serritella, led the successful defense of the popular archbishop. More than a decade earlier, ...

With a Roman Catholic nominated by a major party, the 2020 presidential election cannot help being another fraught moment in the long argument about how to be Catholic in American public life. The ...