Today we celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp.

Sister Mary Ann Walsh former communications director for the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops and most recently a valued correspondent for America magazine has died after a struggle with cancer In typical fashion she had turned her final weeks into an opportunity to reach and educate others a

Perhaps the worst mistake was killing Osama Bin Laden.

Sir Thomas More loses his head in this Sunday rsquo s episode April 26 of the acclaimed PBS historical drama ldquo Wolf Hall rdquo which is not much of a spoiler since that rsquo s what infamously happened to More in 1535 at the hands of King Henry VIII The real suspense now is whether More wi

Yukari Bakracli a tiny Kurdish village outside the city of Van in Turkey rsquo s southeast is home to the ruins of a once-famous 11th-century Armenian Christian monastery Known to Armenians as Varagavank it thrived as a place of worship until Turkish forces looted it and murdered parishioners in

When Francis Cardinal George died from cancer on April 17th the historian biographer George Weigel wrote an appreciation of the cardinal for the National Review rsquo s website ldquo Cardinal Francis George R I P rdquo nbsp It covered the cardinal rsquo s life and legacy as well as his impac