European churches are currently engaged in an architectural culture war. Cardinal Gian­franco Rav­asi declared the outbreak of hostilities in 2013 with a sweeping condemnation of many recently built ...

The Rev. Ivan Dornic was introduced to the architectural glories of old Eastern European churches when he was a seminary student in his native Czechoslovakia. “I was taking a course that touched ...

Across Europe, hundreds of churches that were once filled with worship ... the most promising outcome for many of these centuries-old structures is being reincarnated as residential or commercial ...

ARNHEM, Netherlands—Two dozen scruffy skateboarders launched perilous jumps in a soaring old church building here on a recent night, watched over by a mosaic likeness of Jesus and a solemn array ...

Europe and North America have grown deaf ... the liberals howling to their lairs while the universal church once again reasserted the old ways. And in some ways, it looked very much as if this ...

ANALYSIS: While the de-Christianized Old Continent seems to be becoming ... Moreover, the sexual-abuse crisis remains a major wound in the European Church. Scandals in Germany, France, Spain ...

Across Europe, hundreds of churches that were once filled with worship ... the most promising outcome for many of these centuries-old structures is being reincarnated as residential or commercial ...