Today, it tallies 184 parishes and about 530,000 Catholics in its ranks, according to an archdiocesan census. Those numbers have been declining as parishes close and merge, and fewer people fill the ...

Railway worker George Waiting, middle, helped make the pews for St Barnabas Church, York, in the early 1900s. Pictured with his step brother William Brayshaw Waiting, left, and father John Waiting ...

Pastor Blane Hackett said his mind quickly drifted to a what-if after seeing the damaged caused by a car that crashed into ...