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.

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 ...

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 ...