TWO 100-year-old ... John's (Image: The Northern Echo) In 1971, the legion celebrated its 50th anniversary. Queen Elizabeth II granted it royal status so it became known as the Royal British Legion.

Neal is a graduate of Boston University. Country music star Zach Bryan is buying an old church in Lowell to honor the legacy of famous American novelist and Massachusetts native Jack Kerouac.

(Téa Kvetenadze/New York Daily News) Washington Heights community members and officials rallied Thursday to save the financially strapped 115-year-old Fort Washington Collegiate Church after ...

BRANFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Members of the community gathered at St. Mary’s Church Sunday evening to remember the life of the 12-year-old boy who was killed in a domestic dispute earlier this week.

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious ...

Pope Leo XIV pledged to align himself with “ordinary people” and against the rich and powerful as he presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics on Friday, and called ...

The 69-year-old from Chicago stepped into his role ... The new pope inherits a church whose image and ambitions were transformed by its predecessor; Francis pulled the priorities of the church ...

A town’s more than half-century old "split" and "rotten" benches are ... benches were replaced – one near St Bartholomew’s Church and the other on Wearish Lane. Cllr David Wilkinson ...

Why would church leaders pick a pope from a global superpower that shapes world affairs? Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native ...

The Catholic Church has a new pope ... 267th pope after Pope Francis died last month at the age of 88. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first American pope and will now go by Pope Leo ...