Communion Rails Return as Churches Embrace Beauty and Reverence
A growing number of Catholic parishes in the U.S. are restoring altar rails, renewing reverence and transforming the faithful’s experience of the Holy Eucharist.
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Church Offers Welcoming Sensory Room for Children With ADHD, Autism
‘It was like this big welcoming sign — whatever your child needs ... all of it is welcome.’
Tea With the Sisters: How One Parish Helps Young Women Discern Religious Life
Vocational awareness is a priority at this Maryland church.
Catholic Teen’s Award-Winning Project Preserves Beloved Pastor’s Homilies
The quest to painstakingly preserve 1,200 homilies brings a parish community together.
Did Pope Francis Just Endorse ‘Parish Shopping’?
COMMENTARY: The canonical anomaly, suggested by the Holy Father in an interview with CBS News, was once an anomaly but has become the norm among Catholics.
‘Me First’ to ‘Family First’: Brad Wilcox ‘Gives Voice to the Value of Marriage’
Sociologist and father of nine expounds on why marriage and family are the way to personal fulfillment.
‘Faith Moves Marble’: An Easter Story of Renewal
Rescued century-old altar transforms a New Jersey parish.
‘Poetry of the Mass Is an Open Door to Heaven’: How a Revitalized Liturgy Has Reenergized a St. Louis Parish
Under Father Michael Rennier’s pastoral leadership at Epiphany of Our Lord Church, drawing on the treasures of the Catholic liturgical heritage has resulted in a notably young and vibrant parish family.
Catholic Parishes on the Chopping Block? Don’t Sell Them — Do This Instead …
COMMENTARY: A project in South Bend, Indiana, illustrates that underused space can be repurposed to assist the Church in its mission today.
