But church leaders pushed the date back a few months ... the festival was banned in the nation's earliest days. New England's Puritan leaders considered it a pagan or papist abomination, and ...

There’s a modest plaque on a slab of stone off Old County Road in Rockport, in the yard of what is now the Nativity Lutheran Church. “In Commemoration ... Gregory was born into a prominent shipping ...

For more than 150 years, the Puritans have received a shameful reputation. The colonizers of New England, credited with the first Thanksgiving, are most often portrayed as drab, glum and ...

Ana Luisa Martinez has always loved the Blessed Virgin Mary, but that love grew much deeper when she and her husband took ...

A special memorial Mass was held for Mother Angelica, the foundress of EWTN, in Rome on Thursday to commemorate her legacy ...

It turns out there's nothing miraculous about red marks found on a communion host at a Catholic church in Indiana. The ...

There’s a common misconception outside of the Jello Belt that all Latter-day Saints are roughly the same. That, as a whole, ...

A photo shows the family of a person called “Khalil”, who arrived in the UK by boat, lives in a five-bedroom property in north London and is taking the government to court over his housing needs. The ...

The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation has announced the launch of the Catholic Initiative to help ensure the continuation of ...

Devotees are known as "Moonies" after the church's founder. Formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, the church champions anti-communism and the unification of ...