One of the best parts of Christmas is hearing about how other people celebrate it. And in Venezuela, they have all-night roller skating, which ends with everyone skating to Mass at dawn.

They were intent on responding with mercy to a crisis that at the time showed no signs of slowing.

34 years as a priest allow for a perspective no 19-year-old G.I. can have.

If the world is going to wait for all of us to become perfect before we can find solutions to social evils, the world will have to wait for a long time.

Although I did not emerge victorious in the race for legislator in Nassau County’s 14th District, I did learn some valuable lessons about my country and my own beliefs along the way.

“Please have no leniency on me,” Sister Rice once said at trial. ”To remain in prison for the rest of my life would be the greatest honor you could give me.”