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October 2013

October 20, 2013

After membership declines, Catholic church sold to Muslims

Details from the Sunday Express: St Peter's Catholic church in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, has now closed its doors to...

September 2013

September 14, 2013

Conversion story: making the Crystal Cathedral Catholic

Photo: Mark Boster/LA Times A fascinating piece on what's involved in the transformation, from the...

September 04, 2013

St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in St. Louis may join Episcopal diocese

Photo: by Huy Mach Details from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It has stood up to...

August 2013

August 25, 2013

“You don’t think this is ever going to happen to your church”: Landmark Maine church prepares for sale

Photo: Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Details, from the Lewiston-Auborn Sun Journal: Few prayers remain for St....

August 17, 2013

A Maryland milestone: parish marks 200-year anniversary

St. Mary's Catholic Church. Photo by Tom Fedor/The Gazette I stumbled on this bit of...

August 09, 2013

Amazing: New Zealand’s new cardboard cathedral

Details: The 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011 killed more than 200...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

“Parishioners Were on the Sidewalk Crying”: Vandal Strikes Brooklyn Churches, Synagogue

Details: Police at the 68th Precinct were questioning a suspect in connection with a rash...

July 27, 2013

Something Cool: Time Lapse Video Shows Restoration of St. Patrick’s

A brief glimpse at some of the ambitious work now underway in midtown Manhattan, restoring...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

Wow. How’s THIS for a Vibrant Parish?

Here in Denver for the Catholic Media Conference, I was struck by the bulletin for...

June 19, 2013

Is One of the World’s Greatest Churches About to Become a Mosque?

Reports a few weeks ago indicated as much—and now it's closer to reality: While unrest...

June 02, 2013

Vatican Official Slams Modern Churches as “Museums, Spaces That Do Not Suggest Prayer…”

Details: Opposition is mounting in the Holy See to a spate of recent, ultra-modern churches,...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

Tabernacle stolen from Michigan church

Details: Detectives from the state police post in Mt. Pleasant are looking for information in...

March 2013

March 06, 2013

Making something beautiful in Brooklyn

A Brooklyn landmark is about to get an extreme—and much-needed—makeover. As a local website described...

March 04, 2013

Benedict’s parting gift to Brooklyn: historic church designated as co-cathedral

Great news from the In My Backyard Desk: Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio petitioned the Vatican last...

March 03, 2013

Before and after: a Texas church reborn

Earlier, I posted on my visit to St. Monica's in Dallas, which has just completed...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

New Ohio church uses glass salvaged from other churches

From the Columbus Dispatch: When planners asked St. Paul the Apostle parishioners what they wanted...

February 04, 2013

Before and after: a church renovation in California

From the good folks at New Liturgical Movement, here are some shots of Holy Innocents Catholic...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Making all things new: how a Manhattan church was saved

A heartening story from this morning's New York Times: For more than 160 years, St....

January 18, 2013

Crime wave hits New York churches

From the New York Daily News: Is nothing sacred? Priests at some Bronx churches have...

January 15, 2013

Speaking of altar rails…one priest’s experience

Fr. Jay Finelli of the Diocese of Providence stumbled on yesterday's post and recounted on...

January 03, 2013

New cathedral will use old windows

And they're beauties, as the sample above shows. Details: The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh has...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Haiti’s hope: two years after quake, plans for new cathedral

Details: The winner of the design competition for the new Cathédrale Notre Dame de l’Assomption...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

Brooklyn gets its third basilica

From the In My Backyard Desk, some heartening and happy news--and it's really quite remarkable....

November 01, 2012

After Sandy: we rise, and we kneel

I have one word for my experience today: jaw-dropping. My parish in Queens seats about...

September 2012

September 10, 2012

Report: Anglicans discuss sharing cathedral with Catholics in New Zealand

Details are sketchy, but if it happens it would truly be historic: Anglicans in Christchurch...

July 2012

July 29, 2012

They don’t build ’em like this anymore

St. Finbar's Church, in Brooklyn. I'm just sayin'.

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Extreme Makeover, cathedral edition

I was alerted the other day to some interesting renovation work getting underway at the...

June 22, 2012

Worth a thousand words, Indy edition

Below, a couple shots of the beautiful St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis --...

May 2012

May 14, 2012

A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose…

Ten thousand of them, in fact. Below is a snapshot from the Basilica of the...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

What’s Darth Vader doing on the National Cathedral?

Late today, I stumbled on this story, about a tour of the damaged cathedral...