DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Officials at a church in Detroit are seeking permission from the city's historic committee to remove the structure's aging spires. The finance council of Sweetest Heart of Mary ...

The commission was tasked with evaluating a request to remove the spires that have adorned the Sweetest Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church for more than 100 years. But after a long public hearing ...

It was two hours before the registered nurse and sound healer would welcome more than 50 people to a sound bath in the Koreatown church’s soaring neo-Gothic Shatto chapel. There was a lot of ...

Scrivner demanded to know why Congress should appropriate more than $3,000,000 for so many spires when one spire per church had usually been sufficient in the past. The cost cutters won a modest ...

In addition to the maritime symbolism, the building originally featured four large spires rising from each corner of the church. On December 24, 1871, two of the spires were destroyed by gale ...