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Concerts, cancer stroll on tap for weekend

Dr. Alfred Wheeler and Blessed invites all to their 10th year anniversary tonight at St. Paul CME Church, 4644 S. Dearborn, at 7...

Desmond Pringle’s gospel concert an outreach to cancer patients

Faith-Desmond Pringle (Photo/Courtesy desmondpringle.com) Gospel songwriter and recording artist Desmond Pringle will present in Chicago Thursday the first of a three-city tour that celebrates...

Clergy members amp up support of gay marriage

Advocates of same-sex marriage in Illinois turned up the pressure on state lawmakers Thursday as a group of black Chicago-area clergy members cast...

Pope washes women's feet in break with church law 


Pictured, Pope Francis washes the foot of an inmate at the juvenile detention center of Casal del Marmo, Rome, Thursday, March 28, 2013. Francis...

Pope Francis: A humble image, but complex past 


In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis puts flowers on the altar inside St. Mary Major Basilica, in Rome,...

The choreographed election of a pope in a nutshell 


Pictured is where the cardinals will be sitting inside the Sistine Chapel during the conclave voting, at the Vatican. Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel...

Cardinals get down to work in pre-conclave talks

From left, U.S. cardinals Francis George, Donald Wuerl and Daniel Di Nardo arrive for a meeting, at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The...

BET in Chicago looking for ‘best’ gospel vocalists

Black Entertainment Television is bringing its auditions for the hit gospel singing competition show "Sunday Best" to town this weekend. Chicago is one...

What Africans want from the next pope

COMMENTARY– The shift in the center of gravity in world Christianity from the West to the global South, and the changing demographics in world Christianity, demands that the Eurocentric types and models of church and Christianity need to be abandoned. African Catholicism, like all local Catholic Churches throughout the world, can only flourish when it has the freedom to mine local and cultural resources and to develop its own narrative of faith and life, while embracing the positive heritage of Catholic and Christian history.

Pope's first hours as retiree: Prayer, TV, books

In this photo, a view of a grotto inside the pope's summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the town of Castelgandolfo, south of...
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