Pope Francis made a surprise visit on Oct. 4 to the town of Amatrice in Italy, recently devastated by an earthquake, and told survivors there: “From the first moment” of the tremblor on Aug. 24, “I felt the need to be here.”
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Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
Tracking the theologies coming out of Russian émigrés in mid-century Paris
Bitter, brilliant controversy wracked each stage of the evolution of The Way and its allied academic institutions.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
London town is falling up? Saving a famous skyline from too-rapid development
Along the River Thames, to the east and the west, new tall buildings shoot up almost monthly.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
How Queen Elizabeth put forgiveness into action
Forgiveness, of course, is much more than a feeling. It is a series of small, often painful acts that culminate in a conversion of hearts that creates the very possibility of peace. Queen Elizabeth II put forgiveness into action.