How Well Do You Know the Catholic Church in Chicago?
Test your Catholic knowledge with these 20 questions about the church and Chicago.
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Who’s Staying, Who’s Going
While Chicago1 is much more Catholic than the nation (or the world) … Catholics as a percentage of the population In Chicago In the United States In the world … and Catholics here are more devout (according to them, anyway) … Percentage of Catholics who attend mass at least once a week Chicago 55% 16% … Read more
What Catholics in Chicago Think
On most hot-button issues, the beliefs of both Catholics and ex-Catholics in Chicago differ dramatically from church teaching. Chicago Catholics American Catholics Chicago ex-Catholics Percentage who believe that … Total agreement with Church teaching Total disagreement with Church teaching … same-sex marriage should be legal 45% 54% 55% … women … Read more
Catholics in Chicago: Full Poll Results
Screening Question: What is your affiliation with the Catholic Church, if any? 1,475 adults in Cook and Lake Counties responded Never been Catholic 47.0% Currently Catholic 34.8% Raised Catholic, but currently another religion 9.5% Raised Catholic, but not currently any religion 4.5% Don’t know/Refused 4.2% Demographics of the 601 current and former Catholics interviewed … Read more
Young(ish) Guns
Archbishop Blase Cupich is already shaking up the archdiocesan hierarchy, replacing the No. 2 he inherited—Bishop Francis Kane, 72—with a man 25 years his junior.
The State of the Archdiocese
The Chicago Archdiocese’s expenses have been rising faster than revenues, in part due to fewer faithful … Percentage drop since 1980: People attending weekly Mass1 41% People attending Catholic grade school2 55% … at the same time its inexpensive workforce is shrinking … Number of Nuns: In 1980 5,040 In 2014 1,676 33% are retired … Read more
How a Chicago Summer Job Program Reduced Violent Crime
Students from some of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods were given good jobs and mentors to guide them through. The effects continued well beyond the end of the program.
Archbishop Blase Cupich Just Wants to Treat You Like an Adult
A week before he became the archbishop of Chicago, Blase Cupich sat down with Chicago to talk about some of the challenges he faces.
The New Jocks on Campus
Chicago’s Robert Morris University is the first college in the country to make video games a varsity sport.
Remembering Judy Baar Topinka, a Critical Force in Illinois Politics
The Illinois comptroller died on Wednesday after complications from a stroke.