St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

The suspect then approached a woman who had brought a statue of Baby Jesus to the church to have it blessed and slapped the religious statue out of her hand near the altar rail, causing it to break ...

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where a deacon was blessing a statue of the Baby Jesus that a woman had brought to church to be blessed, Msgr. Ferrarese said. “The deacon was in the process of blessing [the statue],” Msgr. Ferrarese ...

Every Sunday at St. Anne Church in Richmond Hill, Georgia, the Hilleary family — mother Michelle, father Brian and five children — receives Communion at the altar rail. “It creates a more ...

Raised by a widowed mother and extended family in Depression-era New York City, McCarrick became a “prince of the church” when ... a confrontation at the altar rail with the Sacred Body ...

McCarrick, the former cardinal and spiritual leader of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington who, more than a decade into retirement, was expelled from the priesthood after the church found him ...

Clergy from across Philadelphia erected an altar in front of ICE headquarters on Thursday ... New Sanctuary Movement has been alerting church leaders that the change in policy does not mean ICE can ...

PHILADELPHIA — Clergy from across Philadelphia erected an altar in front of ICE headquarters ... New Sanctuary Movement has been alerting church leaders that the change in policy does not ...

Originally built in 1950, the church was renovated last year. Among repairs, the parish brought in a new altar from Belgium. The parish is also currently working to put up altar rails, which ...