All five living former vice presidents attended the funeral of Dick Cheney, a powerful and polarizing figure in U.S. politics.

Mary McDonagh, whose passion for education stretched from the classroom to the advertising pages of the Daily News, died on ...

Here’s a look back at some of the significant events that have defined Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral and its congregation.

Pope Leo XIV during a Friday audience at the Vatican reminded teachers and students from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family of their mission to both speak and ...

On Sept. 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II — whose feast the Church celebrates on Oct. 22 — issued the encyclical Fides et Ratio on the relationship between faith and reason. John Paul II opened the ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 5, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, left, ...

Pope Leo XIV announced he will proclaim St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church Nov. 1 during the Jubilee of the World of Education. Speaking after Mass Sept. 28 for the Jubilee of Catechists, ...

DOLTON, Ill. — The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up marked his 70th birthday Sunday with gospel music and a balloon release outside his boyhood home. A small crowd attended the festivities ...

Pope Leo XIV marked his 70th birthday on Sunday with a public address in which he thanked God, his parents and his followers, after previously receiving a birthday cake from the new U.S. ambassador to ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Pope John Paul II greeted the faithful in South Carolina when he visited Columbia as part of a conference on the University of South Carolina campus on Sept. 11, 1987. More ...

WESTTOWN — After his team pulled off its third one-point win in as many weeks, Pope John Paul II’s coach Darrell Scott couldn’t help but find the humor amidst the anxiety. “I’m getting too old for his ...