CEDAR RAPIDS — This weekend, St. Ludmila Catholic Church celebrates Good Friday and Easter with a symbol of death and resurrection more visible than they’ve had in 20 years. The new crucifix, 10 feet ...

A Lebanese priest has given Pope Francis a crucifix made from wood salvaged after the devastating explosion in Beirut last summer, ahead of the pope’s Lebanon meeting on July 1. The pope received Fr.

The missionary spirit of young people in France is being rekindled by the surprising success of an association that is restoring wayside crucifixes across the country — and attracting considerable ...

When we were in Arkansas, I bought a beautiful handcrafted “Comfort Cross”, made of red cedar. It has no sharp edges because it’s meant to be held; the vertical and horizontal parts of the cross are ...

When I was in grad school, a professor once had my class on ancient Rome read a letter from a young nobleman to his parents, in which he breathlessly described the connections he was making in high ...

When an aggressive Evangelical challenges me for having a crucifix in church, one of my favorite apologetic one liners is to say, “We believe the Bible. Don’t you know 1 Corinthians 1:23, where Paul ...

The desecration of a 14-foot wooden cross erected last month at a Catholic Father’s Day Retreat in Orange County, California, is just the most recent attack on yet another sacred symbol for Catholics ...

SAN JOSE (KCBS) -- Parishioners of a San Jose Catholic church destroyed by a huge fire Sunday are calling it a miracle that both the church's crucifix and Virgin Mary statue both somehow survived the ...

BOSTON, Mass. (TND) — Members of the Boston Catholic community are up in arms over vandalism at a local church, according to a report by Boston 25 News. Boston police confirmed to Boston 25 News ...

Officials in the Brooklyn Diocese said May 17 they will be "notifying our churches to be on alert" to vandalism and hate crimes directed at Catholic church property following two such incidents in ...

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