We should take practical steps to protect migrants and we should creatively preach what the church teaches, says NCR ...

Pews could be removed and capacity limited to allow social distancing in churches The Catholic Church is preparing plans for a phased reopening of parishes. A senior bishop has suggested social ...

Sullivan reported what he saw as a shift to an earlier, pre-Vatican-II style of worship. Polling by Catholic researchers shows increasingly conservative younger priests. Liberal Catholics raised in ...

Milwaukee became what was known as a Catholic ecclesiastical territory in 1843 ... Those numbers have been declining as parishes close and merge, and fewer people fill the pews. Church officials say ...

Dominic Catholic Church in Sombo in the Nadowli-Kaleo District to dedicate church pews to help promote the work of God. The church, hitherto, used normal benches during church service, which made ...

As our own cultural moment in the United States has included some prominent conversions to Catholicism, what might we learn ...

With an organization as old and structurally conservative as the Catholic Church, it can be hard to ... of 22 cathedrals are reporting fuller pews in the age of Pope Francis.

The City of Ottawa’s built heritage subcommittee has approved a plan to remove pews from the nave of St ... a former Anglican church in Sandy Hill that was transformed into a multi-use community ...

Catholics in a parish under the Archdiocese of Seoul in South Korea have joined hands to restore a Church that was gutted in a devastating fire earlier this month. “There seems to be a unifying force ...

Over the years, Joe Chant has watched as church pews, once filled with families squeezed hip-to-hip, became emptier and ...