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Viral photos of a priest using a squirt gun filled with holy water to bless churchgoers during a socially distant service are taking on a life of their own on the Internet.

Father Stephen Tilley, a Catholic priest in Utah, started holding drive-up confessions sessions to help people during the coronavirus pandemic.

In the past few decades religious leaders and communities of faith have shifted how they deal with suicide.

The retired priest charged with a deadly hit-and-run that killed one teacher and injured a second as they were leaving a Christmas party in Orland Park told police he “blacked out” before the crash, and didn’t know how it happened, court documents revealed.  Rev. Paul Burak, 73, the retired pastor of St. Michael Parish in Orland Park, was charged with...

The retired priest charged in a deadly hit-and-run that killed a teacher leaving a Christmas party in Orland Park appeared in court Saturday as prosecutors revealed new details about the crime. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

Legendary pastor Rev. Clay Evans, who founded one of Chicago’s historic black churches and served as a civil rights leader in the city, has passed away.

Legendary pastor Rev. Clay Evans, who founded one of Chicago’s historic black churches and served as a civil rights leader in the city, has passed away.

 Legendary pastor Rev. Clay Evans, who founded one of Chicago’s historic black churches and served as a civil rights leader in the city, has passed away. NBC 5’s Michelle Relerford has more on his remarkable life.

Retired Chicago priest Father George Clements — famous for marching with Martin Luther King Jr. and being the first Catholic priest to adopt a child – passed away Monday, according to a family spokesperson.

A scandal over alleged sexual molestation and abuse at the Vatican’s youth seminary is growing, with more former papal altar boys alleging inappropriate behavior by priests inside the Vatican walls. Le Iene, an Italian investigative television program, plans to air the new allegations Sunday; the show provided the broadcast to The Associated Press ahead of time. The Vatican announced in...

A Roman Catholic bishop named by Pope Francis to investigate the church’s response to clergy sexual abuse in Buffalo, New York, has himself been accused of sexual abuse of a child, an attorney for the alleged victim notified the church this week.

On the heels of a bold call by Amazon region bishops for married men to become priests, Pope Francis is urging openness to new ways, and in a possible slap at conservative critics who fear he is weakening the Catholic church’s foundations, he cautions faithful against entering the “swampy waters of ideologies.” At Mass Sunday in St. Peter’s Basilica to...

Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic proposal that would upend centuries of Roman Catholic tradition. The majority of 180 bishops from nine Amazonian countries also called for the Vatican to reopen a debate on ordaining women as deacons, saying “it...

The father of a 9-year-old murder victim has been convicted of gun charges less than a week after two Chicago men were convicted in his son’s death. A Cook County judge on Wednesday found Tyshawn Lee’s father, Pierre Stokes, guilty of gun possession and aggravated battery. The charges stemmed from a 2014 argument in which witnesses said Stokes flashed a...

 A second guilty verdict was handed down on Friday in the 2015 killing of a 9-year-old in Chicago. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

A jury on Friday announced a guilty verdict for the man accused of planning the brutal murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, who was lured into a Chicago alley and shot execution-style amid what authorities believe was a gang war.

Nearly two weeks after it began, the trials for two men accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old Chicago boy point-blank in what prosecutors alleged stemmed from a gang war will soon be left to a jury.

Opening statements began Tuesday in the murder trial for two men accused of killing 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee execution-style in Chicago in what prosecutors allege all began over a gang war.

The murder trial begins Tuesday for two men charged with the killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, whose shooting death shook Chicago to its core four years earlier. Tyshawn was a fourth-grader who was playing basketball in November 2015 when prosecutors say he was lured away from the playground with the promise of a juice box, only to be shot at...