Rockford church honors St. Joseph with annual altar tradition

Sunday’s storms didn’t stop Saint Anthony of Padua Church in Rockford from carrying on an annual tradition: the St. Joseph’s ...
The Advocate

Immaculate Conception Church volunteers keep St. Joseph's Altar tradition going

The aroma of fresh-baked cookies hovered like a sweetened halo in the main hall at Immaculate Conception Church in Denham ...
OffBeat Magazine

St. Joseph’s Altars Return Across the Area for 2026

The tradition of St. Joseph’s altars return to churches, schools and homes across the New Orleans area this March.
Crux

Brooklyn bishop blesses church after altar desecration, tabernacle theft

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 ...
Crux

Archbishop Aymond reconsecrates church, altar; calls priest’s acts ‘demonic’

New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond uses incense to reconsecrate Sts. Peter and Paul Church and the church’s altar in Pearl River, La., Oct. 10, 2020. (Credit: Christine Bordelon/Clarion Herald ...
National Catholic Register

Louisiana Priest Who Desecrated Altar Charged with Vandalism

Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans performed a penitential rite required for continued use of the church for sacramental purposes Oct. 10, and consecrated a new altar. Fr. Travis Clark after his ...