Shown with St. Brigid Catholic Church — Fairview, OH

Traditional and ecclesial — serif headings, warm tones, ornamental details. Feels like a parish that has stood for a century.

Shown with Holy Trinity Catholic Church — Riverbend, CO

Modern and luminous — clean sans-serif type, generous whitespace, crisp cards. A contemporary face for an active parish.

Shown with Misión San Miguel — Río Verde, NM

A mission courtyard in the afternoon sun — adobe warmth, hand-made edges, arches and tilework. Feels like coming home.

Shown with St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church — Stonebridge, VA

The parish set as a liturgical book — black type and red rubrics on paper, drawn initials, ruled like a page. Needs no photographs to look finished.

Shown with Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church — Port Haven, ME

The parish told in its own photographs — a full-bleed opening picture, then a wall of tiles where photos, Mass times and your welcome are set side by side. For the parish with pictures worth showing.

Shown with St. John Henry Newman Catholic Center — Lakeshore, WI

Loud on purpose — blocks of flat colour, huge confident type, thick outlines you could press. For campus ministries, Newman centres, and parishes full of young families.

Shown with Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church — Marianna, PA

Gentle and Marian — a pale ground, soft white cards, photographs in oval medallions, and sections divided by a decade of rosary beads. Tender rather than grand.

Shown with St. Patrick's Old Church — Riverton, OH

The parish as its own weekly paper — a blackletter masthead, ruled columns, headlines and datelines, the Mass times set like the listings. For a busy parish with news every week.

Shown with Shrine of St. Thérèse of the Little Flower — Fairhaven Heights, MI

A 1920s shrine in black, ivory and gold — sunbursts, stepped arches, fine geometric line and tall, elegant capitals. For the parish whose church was built when the century was young.

Shown with St. Isidore the Farmer Catholic Church — Prairie Grove, IA

Brother Sun and Sister Moon — a herbarium of pressed leaves and drawn plants, photographs mounted like specimens, soft paper and the seasons turning. For the country parish and every parish that tends a garden.

Shown with St. James the Greater Catholic Church — Piedra Blanca, TX

The parish as a way to walk — the yellow arrow and the scallop shell, trail signs for Mass times, and a pilgrim's passport stamped with the year's events. For a parish that thinks of itself as on the road.

Shown with St. Columba Catholic Church — Glenmore, MA

An illuminated Gospel book — interlace borders, uncial letters, great painted initials in the colours of the Irish scribes. Bright, intricate and very old. For parishes that keep Celtic saints.

Shown with Holy Protection of the Mother of God Byzantine Catholic Church — Ridgemont, PA

Gold and candle-smoke — the parish set like an icon screen, with gold leaf, round-arched frames and haloed portraits on a deep ground. For Eastern Catholic parishes, and for any parish that loves the East.

Shown with St. Benedict's Abbey Church — Mount Saviour, KS

The parish day as a monastery keeps it — every Mass and office set on one line from dawn to night, the present hour marked as the day moves. Limestone quiet, a light serif and the hours in figures.

Shown with St. Cecilia Catholic Church — Northgate, IL

Light through stained glass — jewel tones on deep indigo, frosted panes, luminous serif type. Dramatic and prayerful after dark.