When Catholics heard on May 8 the new pope had chosen the name Leo XIV, the thoughts of many turned immediately to Leo XIII, ...

Zion Lutheran Church, designed by Oregon’s most famous architect and the first modern sacred space in Portland, will ...

The late Pope Francis opened the way for women in the Roman Catholic Church to serve as readers and altar servers, and to ...

Photography by by Marco Furio Magliani The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans has created two major new works for the altar of a 16th-century church on ... has also painted a contemporary illuminated ...

And he took the name of Leo XIII, the pope whose teachings in the late 19th century helped establish modern ... times it is church practices like allowing women and girls as altar servers and ...

Rather than refurbish them -- an option that would have been even more costly -- the church opted for brand ... featuring marble accents to enhance the altar space and sanctuary and provide ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Congo joined priests from across the globe behind the altar of ... for the universal church a pope” who is ready to face the challenges of the modern world.

The altar was moved from the west to the north ... creating a link between the old church and its modern successor. Meanwhile, Hillhouse Studio in Anacortes was tasked with restoring some of ...

They cleaned the altars, the church, the sacristy ... replacing its old church from the 1880s with a modern building. The future Cardinal Robert Prevost in second grade. He’s standing (fourth ...

For a church of this size and scale and this design, we needed something bigger, more prominent.” The woodwork for these two features, along with some woodwork on the altar, is being done by ...

the students are required to make a digital model of the church with the altar and the candles and the artwork and everything. So they do digital models just automatically — it’s not hard for ...