With a federal lawsuit over religious discrimination dangling over City Hall, the council agreed to take another look, and possibly change their vote. Apparently, last year’s final vote was not so ...

Congregations with underutilized houses of worship are trying to convert them to affordable housing or homeless shelters. There are significant challenges.

From being born enslaved to building the first Catholic ... the money purchased the land at 36th and Dearborn streets. The church would be named St. Monica, for the mother of St. Augustine ...

Under the mayor’s proposal, San Jose would pursue an eminent domain proceeding to gain a court order that would enable the city to buy the church and the adjoining vacant lot and thereby wrest ...