In January 2000 the Smithsonian American Art Museum until recently known as the Smithsonian Museum of American Art closed until 2004 for major renovations to its home in the historic Old Patent Office Building in Washington D C Instead of storing all of its collection in vaults inaccessible to
As a newly ordained priest I was working with a military chaplain at a base in Germany As we prepared for Ash Wednesday he told me not to distribute the ashes after the homily the usual time but to wait until the end of Mass In his experience great numbers would come to church simply for the as
Lent is about to dawn and today rsquo s readings are a wake-up call Even on a bleak February day the readings are suffused with images of light Twice the prophet of Second Isaiah tells the people that their light shall break forth like the dawn or rise in the darkness It is not the light of vic
Any fool knows that a person is not defined by his or her possessions. Far more important and interesting than what belongs to me is the question of what I belong to—that is, What am I attached to? For the Christian, it comes down to the question: What attachments keep me from following Jesus
Marchers Come to Washington to Tell The Truth About Abortion’In the shadow of the Washington Monument, tens of thousands of marchers gathered to hear a diverse collection of political and religious leaders speak about one goal. We are here to tell America the truth about abortion, said Nellie