In the Derbes family home there is a wall of honor. Lined up on the bedroom wall are six pictures featuring pretty little girls in a similar pose. They represent three generations of the Derbes family ...

(LIMA, Ohio) — Lily Whittaker’s First Communion dress may have been the typical white color, but it was far from average. The dress was made from the wedding gown that Lily’s mother, Quinn Whittaker, ...

Look down at your shoes, I thought to myself. My daughter, Rachel Day, was decked out in her first Communion attire: pristine white dress, neatly kept veil and silver shoes that looked both beautiful ...

More and more people are putting on “their Sunday best” as churches reopen. One local business is making sure that mask you wear is part of that “Sunday best.” Our reporter Katlin Connin has been ...

A few years ago, during dinner with the pastor at St. Joseph Catholic Church on Brooklyn Avenue, Sarah Baldus said the priest lamented that families were spending large amounts of money for First ...

An idea that started in the laundry room of a Clarendon Hills family’s home has turned into a noble, and successful, effort that is helping many people whose children are taking first Communion. “I ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Last weekend, hundreds of second-graders of the Roman Catholic faith received their First Holy Communion in churches across Staten Island, after months-long delays due to the ...

When it comes to religious milestones, the first Holy Communion is an important one in some Christian traditions. It usually happens when a child is around eight years old and in the springtime due to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Christiane Torello, a borough specialist in high-end children’s couture fashion, has been providing Staten Island residents with a luxe selection of formalwear from a famed ...

As Margaret “Peggy” Muriel Drinkwater Clink tried on the dress, she asked her daughter what color it was. “It’s white,” said Kim Griffith. “We want you to wear the white Communion dress you never had.