Twenty-Five It does not seem like a significant number Twenty-five cents can buy a gumball It rsquo s the atomic number for the element manganese It is the number on the uniforms of baseball players Mark McGwire Barry Bonds and Mark Teixeira It rsquo s the minimum age for someone to run for t

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

ldquo The general security situation in this country is awful rdquo says Msgr Nestor-D sir Nongo-Aziagbia bishop of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic ldquo Terrible rdquo he adds shaking his head sadly nbsp Behind him across the grounds of the archbishop rsquo s residence in Ba

Cambridge MA There has been a great deal of coverage during the last week about the Black Mass that will occur at Harvard tonight May 12 By tradition at least the Black Mass was and may still be an obscene parody of the Catholic Mass using a consecrated host Today rsquo s Crimson the camp

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

On May 5 2014 the U S Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 vote that the Town of Greece New York did not violate the First Amendment when it invited local clergy to pray before the opening of town board meetings Significantly all nine justices affirmed the constitutionality of public legislative pr