Holy Name Cathedral

Quick Takes: Country music's new hit

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Roll over, Hank Williams, and tell Patsy Cline the news: Nashville has a new top music awards show. Sunday's Academy of Country Music Awards show on CBS drew 15.4 million viewers, according to early data from Nielsen (final ratings won't be published...

Chicago's first archbishop was 'good prelate, good man'

2013-05-19 00:00:00

When the president of All Hallows College in Ireland saw the regal man on the framed canvas, he knew the portrait buried in a Dublin basement should head home to Chicago. The painting of Patrick Feehan, Chicago's first Roman Catholic archbishop,...

Bending the rules

2013-04-10 16:32:06

Going the distance, with careers in 2 cities

2013-04-14 00:00:00

Sandra Smith was starting her first day as a sales trader in Chicago. Leaving her second post-college job at a hedge fund in New York, she was back in the city where she grew up and where several members of her family had worked in the financial trading...

10 things you might not know about razed Chicago

2013-03-31 08:45:00

Ever since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also...

Easter Mass at Holy Name: 'Magnificent'

2013-03-31 12:18:00

On a divinely spring Easter Sunday, Catholics turned out en masse at Holy Name Cathedral to celebrate the holiday with Cardinal Francis George, newly returned from helping select the new pope at the Vatican in Rome. Speaking to a standing room-only...

Impending election of new pope resonates with Chicago-area converts

2013-02-25 00:00:00

As Cardinal Francis George prepares to leave this week for the Vatican to elect a new pope, several soon-to-be Roman Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago said the coinciding of their decision to convert with a historic moment for the church heightens...

Speedy cops, doorman come to aid of baby struggling to breathe

2013-03-17 20:53:00

Four-month-old Jordyn Rose was baptized Sunday at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral. But on Saturday, she was rescued in a different way. What started out as normal crying turned into her parents' nightmare when Jordyn's face turned white, her lips grew...

Cardinal George says gift of popefrancis.com 'delightful'

2013-03-15 14:54:00

A Chicago lawyer said he bought the internet domain name popefrancis.com as a lark in 2010 and plans to give it to the Roman Catholic Church for free now that the new pope has chosen the name Francis. Chris Connors, 39, says he had hoped a pope in his...

Boy Scouts honored for completing religious program

2013-02-18 09:55:00

A group of Orland Park boy scouts recently completed two religious emblems programs designed to help the youth strengthen their faith. The four scouts—three from Orland Park Troop 318 and one from Hammond Boy Scout Troop 204—received...

Cardinal George: Doctors 'couldn't find any evidence of cancer'

2012-12-12 05:39:00

Medical tests have shown that Chicago's Cardinal Francis George appears to be free of cancer, he said in a wide-ranging interview, though doctors have advised the Roman Catholic archbishop to skip two Christmas Day traditions dear to him. Because months...

Guide to December 2012 TV premieres, movies and holiday specials

2012-11-29 17:16:00

December is all about the holiday specials on TV, but you'll find other interesting viewing as well. On Dec. 7 Sundance debuts "Restless," a gripping two-night miniseries about a former WW II spy. Nat Geo Wild kicks off its annual Big Cat Week Dec. 9...

Expectant mothers walk to the front of the church where they were honored by Cardinal Francis George during mass at Holy Name Cathedral on Mother's Day.

2013-05-12 00:00:00

Cecilia Garcia who was born in the U.S. but whose husband was deported six months ago, holds her daughter Mahalea, 6 as they show their support for immigration reform.

2013-04-11 00:00:00

Chaz Ebert, the wife of film critic Roger Ebert, leaves Holy Name Cathedral following a funeral service for her husband on Monday.

2013-04-09 07:31:00