LINCOLN — Calling it a “day of blessing for this community and for the church at large,” Bishop Louis Tylka consecrated a new altar in the renovated sanctuary of Holy Family Church during a ...

The altar now has been returned to its original configuration as when the sanctuary was built in the late 1890s, Price said. “Most people have just had this amazed exclamation of how beautiful ...

The church used to have two upright white pianos, one on each side of the altar. They were replaced by an electronic organ in 1942, followed by a pipe organ in 1967.

In Tiverton, R.I., when some parishioners suggested returning altar rails to the sanctuary of Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Father Jay Finelli gladly accepted, little knowing shortly thereafter the ...

In Tiverton, R.I., when some parishioners suggested returning altar rails to the sanctuary of Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Father Jay Finelli gladly accepted, little knowing shortly thereafter the ...

This winter, steel beams have gone up to enclose the space and frame a steeple above the altar. The sanctuary is scheduled to open in June. “It’s starting to look like a church now,” said ...

Some church leaders still talk about how the federal government in 1985 began to indict sanctuary workers in Tucson and Seattle for concealing and assisting illegal immigrants.