Dozens of trays lined with parchment paper were placed side by side on table after table inside the cafeteria at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Old Metairie on a recent Sunday morning. More ...

ANDOVER – Allen Townsend, who has been a member of Christ Church since the 1980s, said the hand crafting of a new altar for the church was a labor of love for him and his wife, Carol Reid Townsend.

The concept of maintaining an altar was instilled in Nancy Torcson when she was a toddler accompanying her mother, a member of a church altar guild, to the Episcopal church to prepare the altar for ...