VAIL, Iowa — A small-town church organist retired after nearly five decades of playing for her congregation. On July 7, St. Anne's Catholic Church in Vail celebrated its last regular Sunday mass.

Meanwhile, 11% of Hispanic Catholics live in Crawford County in western Iowa, the report found. ... which was the first Catholic church built in the northeast Iowa town.

Ivan and Bertha Langjahr had a vision for the half-acre green space they owned adjacent to St. John’s Lutheran Church parking lot in New Washington. That vision started to come to fruition as ...