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 ...

Details from officials have been hard to come by regarding the June 30 wrong-way crash on the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge that ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

VATICAN CITY >> Pope Leo on Saturday appointed a French archbishop as the new leader of the Vatican’s commission on clergy sexual abuse, in the U.S. pontiff’s first public move to confront an issue ...

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) ...

The "Manual of the First Church in Exeter," published in 1888, had this to say, “The Rev. Joy Hamlet Fairchild, tenth pastor, was also a Connecticut man and a Yale College graduate.

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) — ...