A congregation of nearly 400 worshippers flocked to Our Lady of Angels Church Saturday to witness Cardinal Francis George rededicating the Humboldt Park church after a lengthy renovation. more ›

Cardinal Francis George of the Archdiocese of Chicago says the proposed policies on contraception "will make it impossible for Catholic institutions to follow their conscience," forcing them to shut down. more ›

Was that so hard? more ›

Cardinal Francis George seemed to have backpedaled on his comparison of Chicago Pride Parade organizers to the Ku Klux Klan last week. Then the Archdiocese of Chicago released a statement from George where he defended and tried to explain his statement. more ›

Cardinal Francis George expressed remorse yesterday at Holy Name Cathedral and said "a rape victim demands all the respect and sympathy that anybody can give." more ›

George and Illinois' five Catholic bishops skewered Quinn for aligning himself with a group that advocates "the legal right to kill children." more ›

Former priest Daniel McCormack pleaded guilty to sexually abusing boys in 2007. A new lawsuit alleges the Archdiocese of Chicago was aware of his behavior when he was a seminarian. more ›

Cardinal Francis George and St. Sabina's Rev. Michael Pfleger have made nice, leading to George lifting his suspension of Pfleger and restoring him to his "sacramental and pastoral ministry at St. Sabina." more ›

The butting of heads between Cardinal Francis George and suspended St. Sabina parish Rev. Michael Pfleger continues. Pfleger, who's remarks on Tavis Smiley's national radio show that he would consider leaving the Catholic Church rather than accept a transfer from St. Sabina led to his suspension, said he will start preaching at other churches if George doesn't reinstate him by this weekend. more ›

Today in the tete a tete between Cardinal Francis George and St. Sabina Parish's Rev. Michael Pfleger - St. Sabina parishioners protested their pastors suspension by marching outside the Cardinal's residence. more ›

The backlash over Cardinal Francis George's suspension of St. Sabina Parish Rev. Michael Pfleger is starting to build. George wrote in a letter to Pfleger said that if the mercurial pastor would rather leave the Catholic Church than accept a transfer from St. Sabina, where he's been for over 30 years, then in George's opinion he's already left. Supporters of Pfleger say the pastor is "in shock" over the suspension and that they're offended that Pfleger, who rarely shies from an opportunity to make a sound bite, found out about his suspension through the media. more ›

In the ongoing territorial pissings between Cardinal Francis George and Rev. Michael Pfleger over Pfleger's future at the Auburn Gresham church, George has suspended Pfleger from his ministry and barred him from performing Catholic sacraments. The two have discussed Pfleger's future in recent weeks, with Pfleger refusing to accept a transfer to Leo High School. Pfleger has said that he would rather leave the Catholic Church than accept a transfer anywhere else. more ›

Rev. Michael Pfleger took to his (bully) pulpit at St. Sabina to express his wishes to the congregation that he wished to stay at the Auburn-Gresham church he's shepherded for the past 30 years. "My life is in God’s hands. What happens at St. Sabina’s is in God’s hands," he said. more ›

Rev. Michael Pfleger, the normally loquacious pastor of St. Sabina Church, is keeping mum about reports that he and Cardinal Francis George recently discussed the possibility of him moving on from the Auburn-Gresham church he's used as a pulpit in more ways than one for over 30 years. more ›

We have to hand it to Cardinal Francis George. He's a man of his convictions, especially when it comes to his stance on gay marriage. Even though his late hour plea to the General Assembly to vote down recognition of civil unions was for naught, George still feels he's right. Because, naturally, he has God on his side. more ›

In Springfield, House Speaker Michael Madigan is the divining rod when it comes to the status of a pending bill. If he says that SB 1716, which will accord gay couples in civil unions the same rights as straight couples, has a good chance of passing in the state legislature's current veto session, it likely means the votes are there and Gov. Quinn would sign it into law if it passed. more ›

Oh, yay, my Olympics cake is finally ready. [Cake Wrecks] more ›

And the hits just keep on coming for Rod Blagojevich. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops elected a new president today, and it's Chicago's own Cardinal Francis George. But it's not all good news today for George: the Sun-Times got a copy of a letter he sent, in which he says new legislation that allows sex-abuse victims to sue perpetrators even after the criminal statute of limitations has expired, is "about money." Police are... more ›

SHOOTING: Two homeless men shot in a 24 hour span in Uptown -- they appear to be unrelated. In more shooting news (why is there so much?!): Police have two "persons of interest" in custody Sunday morning after two teenagers were shot in a playlot on the South Side in the Woodlawn neighborhood, blocks from the University of Chicago campus. TRAINS: Our dear friend warns us: This is why you NEVER put headphones in... more ›

As some would say, God, or what have you, works in mysterious ways. Some might call those ways cruel and unusual. Others might shrug their shoulders and say, "Que sera sera." (Those people are usually Portuguese or Hitchcock fans, we surmise.) Whatever's behind the Fickle Finger of Fate, it pointed straight at Cardinal Francis George on Saturday when he fell during a pre-Easter blessing ceremony and fractured his hip. more ›

"pull left" via sutton hoo in Contribute. more ›

Cardinal Francis George joined a chorus of others in a virtual hymn of condemnation against the Chicago-based Love Holy Trinity Blessed Mission, a religious organization with hopes to be recognized as a Catholic order but which has been described by Archbishop Jerome Hanus of Dubuque, Iowa as having the characteristics of a cult. more ›

Doing their bit to make the whole Church-State, Gay-Not-Gay, Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell, Queer-Eye-For-The-Straight-Catholic debate a little bit more confusing, members of the Rainbow Sash Movement showed up at Holy Name Cathedral on Sunday, wearing rainbow sashes to display their sexual orientation, and were then denied communion. Despite a warning from Cardinal Francis George that just this thing would happen, the Sash Folks decided to go anyway. At this point Chicagoist would make a joke, but religion and politics makes this topic into the third rail of all possible topics. Scary. more ›

Out at CHS, organized by the Chicago Historical Society, is spending the year exploring the LGBT past by hosting a series of events that celebrate the illustrious history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in Chicago and throughout the country.
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