A replica baptismal font of the one in which Juan Ponce de Leon was baptized in 1474 will arrive in St. Augustine on Thursday in time for St. Augustine's 500th anniversary celebration. The font is a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Father Robert D. Lariviere, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in ...

John “Juanito” Jimenez isn’t a parishioner at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Abiquiú. Nor is his friend Rik Gonzales. But neither hesitated when asked to help design and create a new ...

A 'magnificent' new baptismal font has been discovered at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestinian officials claim. Researchers uncovered the older font buried within the existing bowl for ...

I went to Lübeck, Germany, this summer to explore my recently discovered Jewish roots. My grandfather built a successful ironworks plant in Lübeck and lived there until he and my grandmother were sent ...

With a history stretching back more than a thousand years, the buildings on the Stiftsberg in Quedlinburg are of considerable importance far beyond the borders of Saxony-Anhalt, as demonstrated not ...

In a game of word association, if the word was "Juan Ponce de Leon," the popular response would be, "The Fountain of Youth." This is the famous explorer's claim to fame, but in the Cathedral Basilica ...

In her article on elite retreats (“Club Rules”, House & Home, September 14) Jessica Salter describes well the need to belong to a welcoming group whose members have interests in common. In Paris, at ...

The Church of the Holy Rosary in Edgewater was vandalized last week by someone who put human feces in the baptismal font, church officials said. The vandalism followed a series of thefts at the church ...