On one home altar, the family keeps relics and prayer cards. “In our den I have the icons of every patron saint for every family member. This is my prayer space,” MaryBeth said.

Lacerda, 52, who was born in Brazil and raised Catholic, no longer attends church. The altar she has built in her bedroom symbolizes an amalgam of personal beliefs and experiences that have ...

The altar of the Birmingham, Alabama, chapter of Fraternus stands in the home of Terry Rumore. Environment is important. It can help us to thrive and grow or be stifled and deteriorate.

Marellen Mayers is one of the women ordained that day, and like her fellow ordinands, she was raised in the Catholic Church. Her mother had an altar at home, and when Mayers was a child, she would ...

I came of age in the Catholic milieu in Washington in the 1970s and ’80s. I attended Catholic schools. As a child, I went to Mass each Sunday with my observant parents, dutifully reciting the ...

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Soon enough, if not already, fig cookies, lemons and fava beans will adorn pied St. Joseph Altars at local Catholic churches to celebrate the feast day of the saint.

Female Priests Defy Catholic Church At The Altar. In Maryland, four more women were recently ordained as priests in the Catholic Church. More than a hundred women are now underground priests, a ...