Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run record and gracefully left his mark as one of baseball’s greatest all-around players, died Friday.
Obituary
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Amo, Amas, Amat: Remembering Father Reginald Foster, the Vatican’s legendary Latin expert
Reggie Foster taught generations of students in Rome, keeping Latin alive and living a colorful, inspiring life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Remembering John le Carré, who knew that deep down, we all want to be secret agents
John le Carré, who died earlier in December, was a wildly popular spy novelist—and one of the English world’s finest fiction writers of the last half-century.
Posted inFaith
Remembering Bill Barry, S.J.
William A. Barry, S.J. Bill was 90 years old when he died at the Jesuit infirmary at Campion Center in Weston, Mass., on Saturday.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Remembering Jim Dwyer: Jesuit-educated, Pulitzer Prize winner and the last bard of New York
The death of renowned reporter Jim Dwyer is a loss for New York City—as well as for all the people he influenced, informed, or touched in other ways over the course of an impressive life.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Breaking: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Ginsburg died at her home in Washington of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Posted inCulture, Faith
Remembering Regis Philbin: TV stalwart and Catholic school grad
An alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, where his funeral service will be held, Philbin lived a life informed by his Catholic faith.
Posted inFaith, News
Felician sisters bear loss of 13 sisters to COVID-19: ‘Our most tragic time’
The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice in Livonia, Michigan are coping with the loss of 13 sisters to COVID-19 since April.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
A final Freedom Ride: Kerry Kennedy remembers John Lewis
I asked Mr. Lewis how he felt then, four and half decades after being bludgeoned by state troopers. He replied with one word: “Grateful.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Ennio Morricone, composer of Spaghetti westerns and ‘The Mission,’ dead at 91
In 2014 Morricone premiered his first-ever Mass in the Church of the Gesu, the Jesuits’ main church in Rome.