Waugh was never reconciled to the use of vernacular in the Catholic liturgy, for which he had gained great devotion for 30 years.

Humans are called to praise, reverence and serve God through our every decision and action.

After decades of books that described presidential campaigns as thrill rides, political scientists have begun to push back.

While it has long been a gleam in the Russian eye, it has been a thorn for Western diplomacy.

What Black Elk taught his people was to depend instead on something harder to take away than guns, the trust that prayers in their own language, delivered in their own way, would reach the god they addressed as Tunkashila.

“Who is Mary, what is her role in my life and what could I do to get to know her better?”