Elmer Hoelscher, 94, of Westphalia, died Thursday, January 23, 2025 in a Temple Hospital. Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday in the Church of the Visitation in Westphalia. Father Darrell ...

AUSTIN, Texas — As freezing and near-freezing temperatures continue across Central Texas, Austin Fire Department (AFD) crews responded to a fire at a vacant church in northeast Austin Tuesday ...

Native American Church members in Texas have long used peyote in prayer and during religious ceremonies. But believers and academics now say there's a shortage of the bluish-green plant ...

It’s usually gauche to take pictures in church. But at St. John’s, the Episcopal Church just across a sedate Lafayette Square from the White House, photography is inevitable at least once ...

Millions of people enjoy Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Some enter the park one way and leave another, only to return later on the same day, making it somewhat difficult to ...

David Tudor (l), who has now been banned for life from the Church of England, was pictured talking to Stephen Cottrell, then Bishop of Chelmsford, in 2014 A woman who says she was sexually abused ...

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory – where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...

John, who leaps in his mother's womb, is already anticipating his role as precursor of the Messiah. In the Visitation narrative we look to Mary as model of the apostolate of the Church. She brings ...

DALLAS — The Texas Supreme Court Wednesday heard a case that could determine whether or not SMU can sever ties with the United Methodist Church. The case stems from a lawsuit the United ...

So, he moved them to the basement at Visitation Catholic Church. "The good Lord's always been very good to my family. We've had many miracles in my family," Montalbano said. SEE ALSO: Pope Francis ...

Southern Methodist University and United Methodist Church have been in a legal battle over the university's authority since 2019. In a bid to sever ties with the United Methodist Church, Southern ...