Over the past several years, Umberg, who is the pastor at St. William Church, has made a dozen altar decorations representing the major feasts and seasons of the Catholic Church. “When I was in ...

The new Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church — Romanesque in design, traditional in decor and sitting on the ... the ornate Italian marble altar dating to 1921 once graced the former Immaculata ...

In the year 2000, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops published ... it says in No. 305 that floral decoration should always “be arranged around the altar rather than on the altar table.” ...

They identified the unique decoration method as “Cosmatesque ... and the forming of its main altar in 1149. The altar was used by the Catholic clergy to celebrate mass until the Crusaders ...

The altar’s intricate cosmatesque decorations — a technique mastered exclusively by craftsmen in papal Rome — hint at a hitherto unknown connection between the Eternal City and the Christian ...

Rows upon rows of wooden pews stand facing an altar ... levels to accommodate scores of Catholic families. Today, the basement is used mainly to store holiday decorations — fake flowers ...