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Just a little more than 12 months ago, the huge St Mary Siphon, more than a century old, which delivers water to thousands of ranchers and residents along Montana’s Hi-Line and eastern part of ...
The St. Mary’s River Watershed Conservation Directory, led by environmental planner Elizabeth Jones, aims to identify and catalogue high-value conservation sites across the watershed.
SAINTS & ART: Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the entire Church.
PETER R. BARBER Sister Maria Rosa with Italian pastries in the St. Anthony's Church kitchen in time for the annual Italian Festa this weekend Wednesday, June 4, 2025.
St. Mary’s High School, the catholic school based in Manhasset, celebrated its 75th anniversary and the alumni over the years who made the school what it is today.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The last Mass at St. Mary of the Assumption took place in the summer of 2011. It has sat vacant ever since. But preservationists say they hope its connection to Pope Leo XIV as ...
People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption on Thursday mused about what the future might hold for Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church, given its new significance.
Can Pope Leo XIV's boyhood church — St. Mary of the Assumption — be saved ? The church’s owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.
A couple dozen people walked through the open doors of the long-closed St. Mary of the Assumption parish Friday to see where Pope Leo XIV once attended church and "probably where he first felt God ...
The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican back in 2023 to head the office of bishops.
The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems facing the worldwide Catholic Church that the new Pope Leo XIV must address.