Minorities Shape Modern Catholic Church. April 18, 2008 12:00 PM ET. ... So I was right behind the altar. And it was just such an inspiring experience. And it was just wonderful.

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 ...

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, 219 E. Rockwood Blvd., is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its dedication, Dec. 7, 1969. Mass on Dec. 1 was in honor of the church’s 50 years.

Church in Foligno, Italy / Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas. In favor of this aesthetic, consider Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Ronchamp, a modest Catholic Church built in the 1950s just outside of ...

Even as the U.S. Catholic population has jumped to more than 70 million, driven in part by immigration from Latin America, ever-fewer Catholics are involved in the church’s most important rites.

Such men see clearly that religion in the Catholic Church to-day has become a complex and intricate mass of laws, dogmas, and practices that little resemble the simple faith of the early centuries.

He pointed to an “anti-Catholic bigotry” in the culture, seen in a Late Night with David Letterman segment where the host joked about the sexual abuse of altar boys.. He said the joke showed a ...