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A 65-foot-tall sculpture of Frei Damião, a major folk saint in the Northeast of Brazil, was unveiled on November 14 in Canafístula, a district in the city of Palmeira dos Índios in Alagoas State.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 15, 2022 | Associated Press, California, California missions, News, St. Junipero Serra, Statues | 0 |
A statue of a Native American is replacing the statue of St. Junipero Serra in the California state capital.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, General Audience, News, Pope Francis, Statues, Vatican | 0 |
A dove in flight lays a blanket over a homeless person in a new sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 7, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, News, Poland, solidarity, Statues | 0 |
The Gdansk district court on Monday acquitted three men who in 2019 toppled a statue of a late priest suspected of sexually abusing minors, a symbolic moment in the traditionally Catholic country’s reckoning with clerical abuse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 24, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Statues, Vandalism | 0 |
Ten months after a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima was vandalized and destroyed beyond repair, a replacement statue was blessed Oct. 23 by Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 31, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, church vandalized, Diocese of Brooklyn, News, Statues | 0 |
Police say someone busted into the altar at a New York City church, stole a $2 million gold relic and removed the head from a statue of an angel at some point late last week.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 28, 2022 | Aparecida, Brazil, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Our Lady of Aparecida, Statues | 0 |
São Paulo State’s Court of Appeals has reversed a 2019 decision that stopped the building of a giant steel statue of the Virgin Mary in Aparecida, the city where Brazil’s major Catholic shrine is located.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 5, 2022 | Books, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Faith, News, Statues, Virgin Mary, Writers | 0 |
Images of backyard shrines to the Blessed Virgin adorn the pages of many Catholic novelists. They are a place-setting device authors use to plant familiar images in the mind of the reader.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2022 | BJP, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, News, Statues | 0 |
Officials have destroyed a 20-foot-tall statue of Jesus that has been standing in a village in India for 18 years.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 4, 2022 | Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, Archdiocese of Denver, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Statues, wildfires | 0 |
Amid the smoldering ashes of his family’s recently remodeled Louisville, Colorado, home that was destroyed by a Dec. 30 wildfire, Tom Greany found hope in a symbol of his deep Catholic faith: A statue of Mary.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 9, 2021 | Archdiocese of Washington, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, lead, News, Statues, Vandalism | 0 |
Days ahead of a major Marian feast day in the Catholic Church, a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima near the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington was vandalized.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2021 | Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, Madrid, News, Statues | 0 |
Although its pews were packed during Mass Oct. 10, there was a moment when the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine held a solemn silence as a couple processed to the altar with two gold crowns.
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