A thief ransacked a New York City church and made with a $2m, solid gold tabernacle over the weekend, according to police. Some time between Thursday and Saturday afternoon, when Brooklyn’s St ...

Police remain on the lookout for apparent burglars who made off with a solid gold tabernacle worth an estimated $2 million from a Brooklyn church. The bejeweled, 18-karat gold vessel had been ...

Although police said the tabernacle was solid gold, Father Robert Whelan said in a 2013 program about the church that it was solid silver coated in 18-karat gold.

The tabernacle, which measured around two feet tall, was likely weighted — a tradition to keep it from being carried off. In the 2013 church program, Father Whelan said that it would cost at ...

Artifact dates back to 1888 ...