In an age of mass-produced crucifixes, Barry Clifford feels blessed to help make one by hand. Clifford, owner of Clifford Construction in Billerica, is used to parishes getting their cro ...

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of July 28-Aug. 1.

Clarence Louis “Peabody” Hamilton, 70, of Hecker, died peacefully at his home surrounded by his loving family on Friday Aug.

Every so often there comes a moment of clarity about what immigration really means in America, often wrapped in tragedy. The essential work that immigrants do was hammered home last year when six of ...

Critics of the planned statues of St. Michael and St. Florian say they impermissibly favor Catholicism over other religions.

My friends, however, were determined to see the Basílica de la Sagrada Família—so, outvoted, along I went. Construction on Sagrada Família began almost a century and a half ago, in 1882. Catalan ...

A lawsuit filed in Massachusetts alleges that a Catholic student was dismissed from the school after she objected to having to witness an abortion as part of her clinical studies.

Cardinal Raymond Burke and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will celebrate the solemn pontifical Mass in the traditional Latin ...

The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s ...

Ferguson — claiming the new law was a punch thrown straight at the Catholic church; that it forces priests to choose between obeying the state or violating a core religious duty.

L.A. Catholic Church will deliver hot food, medicine to immigrants afraid to go outside Archbishop José Gomez presides over Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.