Illinois

“Many faithful Catholics don’t really know or don’t really understand what the Church teaches or if they understand … they don’t understand why.”

A federal judge on Sept. 11 temporarily blocked Illinois from enforcing the state’s physician-assisted suicide law for Catholic entities that challenged it.

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, two orders of Catholic nuns, and an Illinois pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid …

The judge’s order is in place pending the result of two cases under appeal in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NIFLA v. Treto and Schroeder v. Treto.

Immaculate Conception Church, a handsome, 19th-century red-brick edifice near the Mississippi River, hosts a weekly Mass on late Saturday afternoons.

CHICAGO (OSV News) — An Illinois Catholic bishop, four Catholic doctors and a Lutheran nursing home have sued the state of Illinois over a new physician-assisted suicide law before it takes …

Tickets to the September 2026 beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen are quickly being snapped up.

“We must have the freedom to follow and express our convictions without government interference,” said Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield.

In this continuing series on the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, we now turn our attention to the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.

“In a world that we live in where everything is negative, to have a fun comment, a fun little story like this … shows that the pope is human.”