Antoinette Pacini prays during Sunday mass at the Galvez Hotel, which was headed by a priest from Sacred Heart Cathedral Galveston. Photo by Mayra Beltran, Houston Chronicle. Galveston was hit hard by Hurricane Ike, and some of the most severely damaged public places were houses of worship. But it takes more than wind and water…

A story out of Massachusetts offers a poignant new take on the priest shortage. Reuters reports: The sign outside St. James Church in the affluent Boston suburb of Wellesley sums up Catholicism’s deepening struggles in the United States. “Still searching for a priest,” it reads. Another sign affixed to its thick doors pleads: “Save St.…

That is exactly what this striking facility seems to represent. An article in Church Executive Magazine outlines how the building came to be, from the merger of six parishes in Wisconsin. Could this be the shape of things to come? Take a look: Holy Family Catholic Community in Fond du Lac, WI, has the remarkable…

California’s most eye-popping place of worship up until now has been Los Angeles’ controversial Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral. Now it may have some competition. Oakland is unveiling its shiny new Cathedral of Christ the Light. And the local press is abuzz: The new Cathedral of Christ the Light is a dramatic glass structure…

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