Pews—the rows and benches in which church folks sit—have a certain hierarchy on Sundays, especially in the black churches where I grew up. There are rows for deacons and rows for senior ...

Northwood Presbyterian Church is, in a sense, a kind of home. People have gotten married in the cinder block building. They’ve sat with their kids in the pews and watched the Rev. Chris Deacon ...

Majorities want the church to allow use of birth control and IVF, and to permit priests to bless same-sex couples. But views ...

Pew’s report specifically tracked and categorized the answers of Catholics who attend Mass at least weekly and those who don’t. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that participation ...

68% back the ordination of women as deacons. 63% think the church should allow married priests. 59% support women serving as priests. The Pew summary noted: "When asked to choose which of two ...

Aberdeen police officer Gus Grivas noticed a broken-down wooden bench on the porch with a cross inscribed on the side. “Is this a church pew?” he asked Flanagan’s daughter, Lizbeth Flanagan.

There were cries of sorrow but just as many words of praise for Deacon Alphonso Anderson ... the youth group leader at the church. Hundreds of mourners packed into church pews to bid farewell ...