NEW BEDFORD — The beauty of the landmark granite edifice that is St. Lawrence Martyr Church on Summer Street has struck parishioners and visitors for generation after generation. The time has come for ...

NEW BEDFORD — Fourteen bells were shipped to St. Lawrence Martyr Church on Dec. 3, 1888. The more than 12,000-pound shipment cost the parish $3,600 and came with a five-year guarantee. Nearly 129 ...

Ten years ago, a group of Brookline residents decided to fight against the Catholic Church. Some called them “renegades,” but the group was hardly made up rebellious types. Instead, the roughly 60 ...

In a way, it’s always been the goal of the Buffalo Mass Mob to “blow the roof off” churches in Buffalo. At least, in the metaphorical sense of packing them to the rafters and splitting them at the ...

When construction was complete on the renovations at St. Lawrence Church in Weehawken two years ago, the Rev. James Whelan was thankful that “I’ll never have to do this again.” Unfortunately, the ...

According to the old Catholic Encyclopedia entry for the fourth/fifth century A.D. Spanish poet, Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, he wrote his poems “to glorify God and atone for his sins.” He was born in ...

Ask most people what they know about St. Lawrence and they will mention his being martyred on a gridiron. We know he was a deacon who was martyred and killed on Aug. 10; many of the other details, ...