REDMOND — The old organ brought tears to Kathleen Clark’s eyes when the strains of “America the Beautiful” filled the old St. Thomas Catholic Church in Redmond last month. “It just fills up your whole ...

A century ago, the 30-voice choir at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Hughestown was drowning out their organist, who had only a small reed organ to accompany them. The Rev. Elmer Deibert, pastor of the ...

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) — Across the country, April is recognized as National Donate Life Month. The month brings awareness to organ donation and the donor heroes who gave the gift of life to others ...

Itaru Sekiguchi first heard the Great Organ of the Paris Notre Dame cathedral when he was 10. The "infernal sound" changed his life forever. "It was a bit of a culture shock," he said. Today the ...

Sunday afternoon sunlight filters through stained-glass windows, casting the interior of this brick St. Paul church in a soft glow. Besides some friendly chitchat, everything is quiet inside UNITY ...

NEW YORK — Joseph Vitacco III remembers what captivated him when he was a child and his grandmother took him to Mass: not the sight of the priests in their robes, not the stained-glass windows soaring ...

For many years I debated: Should I be an organ donor? As a faith leader who regularly speaks about the value of life, and as a healthy individual with an interest in organ donation, I was genuinely ...

We enter the intensive care unit to examine our 8-month-old patient. Tubes and wiring surround her body like a spider’s web; her mother hovers to place a pink bow in her meticulously combed hair. Mira ...

PennLive readers were both touched and torn by the sad, tragic story of two-year-old Sophia M. Hoffman, whose killer almost got away due to the little girl’s organ donation against the wishes of ...

The U.S. has a deadly shortage of donor kidneys, livers and other organs for transplant. The wait list is about 110,000 patients long, and every day 20 people die before their names come up. So it ...