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Workers are saying good-bye to the bells at St. James Church in Chicago.

But the leader of more than 2 million Chicago-area Catholics vows to keep working.

Their 2001 encounter on a South Side youth basketball court added to tensions that had an African American team leaving a mostly white league.

Mexico bans abortion under almost all circumstances. But Mexico City, which does not belong to any Mexican state, stirred great controversy when it legalized voluntary abortion in 2008.

A lot of people are speaking for Catholics these days.

Some nurses on Chicago’s Northwest Side have begun two days of voting in a closely watched union election.Since 2002, Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has been trying to organize thousands of employees at Resurrection Health Care, a nonprofit Roman Catho

Chicago’s top Catholic official Thursday blessed what his archdiocese is calling its “healing garden” for survivors of clergy sexual abuse.