Covered in a bright blue tarp and tied down with an orange harness, the La Pieta statue was moved out of the historic St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen Tuesday morning and heaved onto a flatbed truck as a ...

Rain started pouring and plastic tablecloths flapped in the wind as the women said their prayers, rosary in hand. First in Polish, then Spanish, then English. “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us ...

A replica of Michelangelo’s famed statue of the grieving Virgin Mary, the Pieta, sits alone and vulnerable in the shuttered remains of St. Adalbert Catholic Church. The statue, as much a piece of ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A beloved statue could soon be removed from a Pilsen church. Parishioners protested for months to prevent the removal of the replica of Michelangelo's La Pieta statue from St. Adalbert ...

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English, Spanish and Polish melded as a group of about 40 people braved the cold to protest the removal of the La Pieta sculpture from St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen. The removal, which was scheduled ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Neighbors in Pilsen continue their fight to keep a beloved statue in place at a closed Catholic church. Activists have camped out at St. Adalbert Catholic Church for more than 40 days ...

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VATICAN CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - Forty-one years ago, a crazed Hungarian named Laszlo Toth jumped an altar railing in St. Peter's Basilica and dealt 12 hammer blows to Michelangelo's Pieta, severely ...