The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops focused on morality in its own campaign to end capital punishment, which was launched in 2005. And from time to time, popes have made special appeals to ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to have been completely lost to time—was recently discovered in an archival box ...

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A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Casket-shaped stones mark the 62 graves identified at the original site of the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va., on May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) ...

Restoring a 300-year-old mural in Boston’s historic Old North Church The cherub paintings that once looked down on Paul Revere will soon be back in all their original glory Kimberly Hatfield ...

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels, at top right, adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church in the North End neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston.

Conservator Corrine Long, of Dover, N.H., restores nearly 300-year-old painted angels on walls of Old North Church, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ...

Conservator Corrine Long, of Dover, N.H., restores nearly 300-year-old painted angels on walls of Old North Church, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) BOSTON (AP) — ...

Recently restored, nearly 300-year-old painted angels, at top right, adorn an arch at the historic Old North Church in the North End neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Boston.

The Old Church is one of the most popular tourist attractions on Boston’s North End, having been made infamous by Revere’s 1775 ride to warn of the British army’s impending arrival.