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 ...

The mayor of Quincy, Mass., is being sued over 10-foot statues of two Catholic saints that he wants to install in front of a ...

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 ...

An irate hellraiser stormed the altar at a Long Island church during Sunday mass — toppling sacred, century-old relics and causing $10,000 worth of damages, authorities said. Aldo Hernandez, 26, burst ...

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 ...

Quincy faith leaders oppose the placement of two 10-foot Catholic saint statues on the new public safety headquarters façade. The $850,000 statues of St. Michael and St. Florian are seen as by some ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Norfolk Superior Court judge granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, temporarily blocking two religious statues from being placed outside of Quincy's new public safety building amid a pending ...