Catholic Bishop: Obama On 'Similar Path' As Hitler, Stalin
A downstate Illinois Catholic bishop has come under fire after he said in a message at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria that President Barack Obama is o...
A downstate Illinois Catholic bishop has come under fire after he said in a message at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria that President Barack Obama is o...
Posted 02.29.2012
Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George on Sunday threatened that, because the Catholic Church "is being told she must 'give up'" its religious fre...
Posted 02.19.2012
Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George, back in town after a visit to Rome, has doubled down on his contempt for the Obama administration's call f...
Posted 02.13.2012
Story of Kate Sosin, courtesy of the Windy City Times: Despite a blistering cold morning, more than 20 LGBT activists protested outside of Holy Nam...
Posted 02.10.2012
Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George this week entered the fray of a national debate over President Obama's plan requiring most religiously affi...
Posted 02.01.2012
Though Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George apologized last month for a contentious remark that compared LGBT activists to the Ku Klux Klan, gay...
Posted 01.17.2012
Cardinal Francis George on Monday marked his 75th birthday, an important milestone for Catholic bishops. As ABC Chicago reports, all bishops are re...
Posted 01.09.2012
Story by Kate Sosin, courtesy of the Windy City Times CHICAGO -- Despite an official protest cancellation by LGBT groups, a handful of LGBT-rights ...
Marianne T. Duddy-Burke | Posted 03.09.2012
Change must come from a rejection of current structures and the empowerment of Catholic lay people.
Will Guzzardi | Posted 03.06.2012
We have made progress in Illinois. After decades of hard work, Illinois finally passed civil unions last year and took a step in the right direction. But civil unions are not marriage.
Posted 01.02.2012
Story by Kate Sosin, courtesy of the Windy City Times: A local LGBT activist is planning a demonstration in front of Holy Name Cathedral, 730 N. Wa...
Wayne Besen | Posted 02.27.2012
Cardinal George's outrageous comparison of the LGBT community to the Ku Klux Klan was so degrading and hurtful that apologizing will not be sufficient. His only road to redemption is handing in his resignation.
Tracy Baim | Posted 02.26.2012
If all religious groups paid their fair share of taxes, I wouldn't be as angry when they spoke out against my right to equality. But when a religious leader like Cardinal George gets a large forum to amplify his prejudice off all our taxpayer backs, it is an unfair system.
Posted 12.24.2011
An online petition launched this week is calling on Cardinal Francis George, the Chicago Archbishop, to resign from his post following a comment he ma...
Posted 12.22.2011
Cardinal Francis George, the Archbishop of Chicago, this week told a Chicago news station that he agreed with a local Roman Catholic church's objectio...
The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.15.2011
The Archdiocese of Chicago has reached a $3.2 million settlement with the family of another sex abuse victim of former priest Daniel McCormack. The...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 08.09.2011
In a statement issued late Wednesday, Notre Dame University announced the immediate resignation of one of their Board of Trustee members, Burr Ridge, ...
Hermene Hartman | Posted 07.10.2011
Father Pfleger is being punished for his good behavior, while some of the deviant priests were promoted to escape the consequences of their deviancy.
Andy Thayer | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago's Cardinal Francis George recently took pro-gay activists to task for our protest Sunday morning in front of Holy Name Cathedral against his anti-gay policies.
Andy Thayer | Posted 05.25.2011
Our Feb. 13 protest in front of Holy Name Cathedral is a direct response to Cardinal George's recent high-profile lobbying against the soon to be implemented Illinois civil unions law.
Posted 05.25.2011
By Chuck Colbert, Windy City Times The Catholic spiritual leader of Chicago visited Boston College recently, where a doctoral student pressed Cardin...
Pete Subkoviak | Posted 05.25.2011
Wishes don't come true often but for 35 million Americans, health care reform is about as close as it gets to a Christmas miracle. Apparently Cardinal George didn't get the memo.
Posted 05.25.2011
In the few days of Springfield legislating between the November elections and the swearing-in of a new Assembly in January, myriad interest groups are...
Chicago Catholic News | Posted 05.25.2011
Cardinal Francis George is poised to revive an old -- and somewhat controversial -- tradition in the Archdiocese of Chicago: bestowing the honorary ti...
Posted 05.25.2011
Cardinal Francis George of the Archdiocese of Chicago denounced a D.C.-area ministry that describes itself as "gay-positive" and seeks to build bridge...
Posted 05.15.2012