So it went unrung for several years until a separate concrete-block tower was built for it as part of a 1908 church expansion. Westlake United Methodist undertook what turned out to be a yearslong ...

Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound in many churches. Yet another centuries-old practice has remained in some ...

When the bell stopped ringing is a question parishioners at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jefferson City are trying to answer. The 800-pound bell fell silent sometime before the turn of the ...

After 22 years of silence, the bell at Bethlehem’s oldest Roman Catholic Church is ringing again. But not everybody is happy about it. The Holy Infancy Church on East Fourth Street in south Bethlehem ...