John Lennon said, "When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps." Those who ...

Pope Francis said Wednesday that having Mass centered around the altar is meant to remind faithful that the cross is the first Christian altar on which Christ offered the sacrifice of his life. During ...

Kayla Lewis was shopping at the Columbia Mall when she saw a new store that piqued her interest. The next week, she brought her mom along to shop at Altar’d State. Altar’d State opened in the Columbia ...

St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church at Burlington, Vt., a gleaming structure of glass blocks and red brick produced by local architects who were chosen because they had never designed a Catholic church ...

A church community in Kentucky has found a symbol of hope still standing in the rubble of their house of worship after the church suffered catastrophic damage from a tornado last week. An altar ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

Every Monday morning of my 16 years of preaching, I’d slide open my filing cabinet to add another sermon manuscript to the archive. When I couldn’t stuff one more into the drawer, I’d take the stack ...

A hammer, a chalice, pine cone-shaped pastry and fava beans take on special meaning on March 19, which is celebrated with St. Joseph Day altars inside homes, schools, churches and community centers ...

Researchers have unearthed a Crusader-era altar in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher in a serendipitous discovery that sounds straight out of an Indiana Jones plot. The find, announced by the ...

A Rockville Centre church has been given a new outdoor worship space thanks to the efforts of a teen parishioner. Christian Carbonaro, 15, recently spearheaded a complete rebuild of an outdoor stone ...