Shirley MacFarland’s weekly community column featuring news and notes from Brecksville, Broadview Heights, North Royalton and Strongsville.

Popes in my lifetime have written eloquently about Mary, many of whom had a deep devotion to the Mother of God. Pope St. John Paul II, in his encyclical “Redemptoris Mater” made this observation about ...

Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that's little changed since its founding more than a millennium ago.

A plan to build 21 apartment homes in La Habra amid Orange County’s housing crisis faced all-too-familiar opposition. Residents turned out for the La Habra City Council meeting Monday to air ...

He said the church site sustained a fire in 2023. Chelsea Crump is a lash and hair tech with a beauty store located near the church site. She saw firefighters battling the blaze and is thankful no ...

Clarendon Presbyterian Church has been seeking to redevelop its property at 1305 N. Jackson Street in partnership with True Ground Housing Partners. Conceptual site plans filed last May depict a ...

SAN JOSE — Under a proposal by the mayor, the municipal government could seize ownership of the abandoned First Church of Christ, Scientist building, a historic downtown site that has become one ...

A new supported housing development on the site of a former Sunderland church has reached a key milestone, council bosses have announced. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland ...

Perched on the banks of the River Wye you’ll find the sleepy city of Hereford, home to famous beef cows and the largest surviving medieval map of the world. But a map isn’t the only thing that ...