I asked Mr. Lewis how he felt then, four and half decades after being bludgeoned by state troopers. He replied with one word: “Grateful.”

He was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by Martin Luther King Jr. that had the greatest impact on the movement.

Church officials had been in regular conversation with Toronto and Ontario officials and received enthusiastic approval of the plan the diocese put in motion to reopen churches and restore Communion at Mass.

I was caught off guard by the show’s artistic experimentation, nuanced spiritual message and deeply moving season finale.

Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam has said it was a “priority” for him to re-inter the babies' bodies in consecrated ground.

“Flannery” is an apologia for O’Connor but, like any good defense, it takes the position that she doesn’t need one.

“Religious orders rarely look at their own participation in a racist culture.”

they last seconds then dissipate like apologies

I worried his soul had been out for too long.

Jesus called his followers to be fishers of men. We can understand this better if we consider what it takes to be a fisher of fish.