A mural behind the altar showing artistic depictions of Catholic activists who were killed in land disputes in Brazil was covered by the vicar, who claimed that “most churchgoers don’t like to see ...

After decades of prolific artistic creation, a master santero is celebrating a first. Los Lunas-based santero Nicolas Otero, a longtime carving and painting saint-maker whose works include church ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Reasonable people — yes, including Catholics — see the need for law and desire a well-ordered society, but these laws must be ...

The lawsuit contends that the new policy is spreading fear of raids, thus lowering attendance at worship services and other valuable church programs.

Love is in the air because Valentine's Day has arrived! Feb. 14 has long been known as a day of romance, filled with ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

In a quiet corner of this Oxfordshire town, the small Catholic Church of St. Teresa of Lisieux, once a local laundry, stands above a narrow roadway, overlooking ancient cottages and tucked-away ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

An Iowa inn that may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad is in danger, according to a report released this week. It's one of two buildings the nonprofit Preservation Iowa identified on ...

2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally ...

Past efforts to allow more religion in public schools have been hamstrung by legal challenges. But those on the religious ...