From 1850 until 1920, Catholic nuns were virtually everywhere on the North American continent.
“Nobody ever wrote a more unaffectedly elegant English,” a critic once wrote of Evelyn Waugh.
Terrence Malick's 'To the Wonder' is a demanding but ultimately richly rewarding film.
The old woman in ICU wants to rail against the Church.Patriarchy, she says, hierarchy, and I agree.She looks just like my mother.But you’re dying, I say.Why are we talking about this?Why does any of this matter?And the sun slants through the dusty window.My Roman collar chafes.On the monitor,
It is easy to forget how few Christians there were when the church began Acts 1 15 says there were 120 people gathered together after Pentecost Acts also narrates the mass conversions of many people sometimes in the thousands but Robert M Grant said that ldquo one must always remember that fig
It took the apostles some time to come to terms with the reality of Jesus raised from the dead but once they accepted it they had to face the challenges of day-to-day life in the context of their newly aroused faith It was this tension between the mundane reality of ordinary life and the glorious
The war in Iraq dramatically eroded the United States’ influence and standing in the world.