When he was installed as head of Roman Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis was heralded as a progressive change-maker. For ...

Somerset Area High School junior Daniel Mair could barely summarize his emotions Saturday after he won the Band of Brothers Shakespeare Company's first William Shakespeare competition for area high ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Area clergy will deliver messages of the power of the Resurrection, hope, love, truth and investing in one another in their Easter Sunday sermons. For Christians, Easter is the most ...

Standing in front of an open tomb that held a cross and white cloth Sunday at Richland Cemetery, the Rev. Thomas Moore spoke ...

Bartchak to preside at services Bishop Mark Bartchak will preside at the upcoming Easter observances at both diocesan Cathedrals. Good Friday, April 18, is the one day of the year when the Mass is not ...

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Dozens of people filled Bottle Works Arts, 411 Third Ave. in the Cambria City section of Johnstown, Saturday for the annual ...

Firefighters in Clearfield County responded to a house fire on the 400-block of Walnut Street in Curwensville around midnight ...

VATICAN CITY - Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who built websites to spread his faith, will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's first saint of the millennial generation this month ...

The family kindly requests that contributions be made in memory of Barbara to St. Mark’s Catholic Church Building Fund, 416 Sixth Ave., Altoona, PA 16602; or Carmelite Monastery of St. Therese ...

Terry and I have been playing Irish music together for more than 30 years,” Rahkonen said, often at Coyne’s Pub in Indiana or Murphy’s in Johnstown.

Blessed Carlo Acutis, the gaming teenager who had a deep love for Christ in the Eucharist, is about to become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. Acutis will be canonized during the ...