In the task of designing church interiors, one of the most neuralgic issues is the placement of the tabernacle. Behind the altar? To the side of the altar? In a separate chapel? In recent years, the ...
History was made this year during a church renovation. Renowned architect Duncan Stroik noted that the retablo gracing the sanctuary behind the altar in St. Catherine of Siena Church “is the first new ...
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A tabernacle valued at $2 million was stolen from a Catholic church in Brooklyn last week and statues of angels flanking the altar were decapitated in the process, police said. Power tools were used ...
Bishop Robert J. Brennan of Brooklyn, N.Y., blesses and purifies the altar at St. Augustine Church June 4, 2022, a week after the theft of the church’s historic tabernacle valued at $2 million. A ...
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