A Kansas church notorious for its angry, anti-gay protests at military funerals will continue the controversial practice despite new restrictions in a bill passed by Congress that awaits President ...

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Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, is pictured in a 2010 photo. (CNS/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World) In June 2017, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, issued a decree to ...

For parishioners of the Westboro Baptist Church, Wednesday's case at the Supreme Court is more than an hour of legal debate over the constitutionality of military funeral protests; it will also mark ...

Two suspects, ages 19 and 16, have been charged in a shooting that injured six people outside a church funeral service in Pittsburgh, and investigators recovered the suspected firearm used after it ...

STOCKTON — A pastor has been named as part of an investigation into illegally running a funeral home inside a southwest Stockton church where unrefrigerated remains were reportedly kept. The Rev.

An anti-gay church plans to picket the Oscars and Heath Ledger's funeral. Jan. 24, 2008— -- A fundamentalist church whose members demonstrate at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and ...

SPRINGFIELD — A new decree issued this month by the leader of the Springfield Roman Catholic diocese denying gays and lesbians in same-sex marriages from receiving communion or a church burial is ...

The Archdiocese of Washington has issued an apology to a family that was kicked out of a Maryland church by a Catholic priest during a funeral for a loved one. Before a funeral Mass for 54-year-old ...

As Atlanta readies for Coretta Scott King's funeral Tuesday, police brace for Fred Phelps and members of his Kansas church. Phelps has exploited funerals for virulent, anti-gay protests. The ...