Pope Francis was meant to be a pontiff for the age of globalization. The pope's spiritual mission doesn't change, but its earthly context does, and when the College of Cardinals chose Argentina's Jorge Maria Bergoglio as successor to the retiring Pope Benedict XVI, they made a guess about where ...
The following is a transcript of a phone call you made last month to your internet service provider after you discovered that your internet was out. Suspiciously robotic voice: Hello! You've reached Bromtast. My name is Valerie. How can I help you today? You: Hi, "Valerie." I'm having trouble ...
To the Editor: Fifty-five years ago on April 22, 1970, the largest, the cleanest, most peaceful demonstration, that ever occurred in America’s history, HAPPENED! My generation created a new kind of movement. A movement which aligned high school students, college campus militants, wilderness ...
The iconic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "Paul Revere's Ride" begins, "Listen, my children ..." And, sure enough, we have long told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in April 1775, when the famous silversmith warned the countryside of approaching British troops and the American ...
CHARLEROI — For 132 years, the sound of the factory air whistle signaling the start of the work day at the plant along 8th and McKean Avenue in this Washington County borough meant all the things we associate with work: Men and women had jobs, families had food on their table, the societal ...
Kafkaesque. One hears that word a lot in discussions of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Or, for lowbrows like me, "The Twilight Zone" might be the pertinent reference. Abrego Garcia is the Maryland man who was wrongly deported and imprisoned without trial in a grim prison in El Salvador. In March, ...