A hammer-wielding vandal was arrested for bashing in the faces of statues of Mother Teresa and a Catholic pope outside a Brooklyn church Monday. Randy Maldonado Avila, 30, allegedly took a hammer to ...

But critics of the planned statues of St. Michael and St. Florian say they impermissibly favor Catholicism over other religions. (L-R) Statues of St. Florian and St. Michael are planned for the ...

The line between church and state gets blurred when the same figures have significance not only to religious groups but also to police and firefighters.

The disturbing discovery was made on Sunday morning as children were making their first holy communion. The statue's head was ...

Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch is teaming up with a prominent legal group in appealing a court order that has blocked him from installing statues of Michael the Archangel and Florian at the city’s public ...

A Norfolk Superior Court judge heard arguments Friday and will soon rule on whether Quincy can place two large religious statues at the entrance to a new public safety building. The ACLU is ...

The lawsuit is over the placement of two Catholic saint statues at a new public safety building in Quincy. Quincy residents sued the city and Mayor Tom Koch, arguing the statues violate the state ...

A showdown over Catholic statues on a public building in a Massachusetts city represents yet another fight in a national conversation about the separation of church and state. A judge granted a ...

A Boston-area mayor is fighting a group of residents over his decision to commission two statues of Catholic saints for the facade of a new city building — at an estimated cost of $850,000. Critics ...