Among our many family photographs there is one of me as a toddler beginning to take tentative first steps I am reaching out my hand to my father who is beside me looking down at me with some concern ready to grasp mine I am dressed in a light-blue winter outfit with the hood pulled up over my

In order that his Most Sovereign Majesty King George III his ministers and his army of Redcoats would become aware of something significant arising among the nations a plain-spoken farmer-lawyer from Braintree Massachusetts stood up among the delegates of the Continental Congress and offered th

Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day June 6 1944 a momentous day was the culmination of Operation Overlord a long-planned operation to liberate Europe from the Nazi scourge that Hitler and his regime had spawned The massive operation required troops to depart from the coast of England and la

Forty-six years years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. What would he make of the current state of U.S. politics?

In 1895 a young boy from the Italian village of Sotto il Monte sat down and began to write Nothing unusual about that mdash many youngsters get the inspiration to write about things they see They grab a pen or a pencil or in the cases of toddlers crayons and fill up reams of paper with the pro

Springtime is a magical time of the year for memory When the grass turns green again and all the flowers of God rsquo s creation miraculously bloom anew and the last of winter has passed we naturally want to remember what it was that made us grateful to be alive to stare in wonder even and lin

In a homily he gave during Mass on May 9th at the Santa Marta guesthouse chapel Pope Francis looked around the congregation and said ldquo We are sinners everyone here And the Church is holy We are sinners but she the Church is holy hellip But how can it be holy if all of us are in it rdq

For those who are dedicated readers scholars researchers mdash or just plain bibliophiles mdash welcome news came across the wires May 7th that the New York Public Library has finally decided to shelve pun definitively intended the grandiose ldquo Central Library Plan rdquo It was a plan to r

March 29th will mark a first in the history of papal audiences On Saturday Pope Francis will have a special audience for those who are deaf and blind It will be held in the Paul VI audience hall at the Vatican While it is true that popes in the past have had met individually with people who were