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Religion

Ten Commandments are going up in public school classrooms

DALLAS (AP) — Court rulings are bolstering mandates to display the Ten Commandments in public schools in the U.S. as supporters push to expand the role of religion in classrooms, including making Bible stories required reading for students. The biggest drive yet to put the Ten Commandments ...

Pope blasts ‘tyrants’

BAMENDA, Cameroon — Pope Leo XIV blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace Thursday in the epicenter of a separatist conflict in central Africa considered one of the world’s most neglected crises. Leo traveled ...

Faith and Family

Editor's note: Today's installment of Faith and Family was originally published in 2014 As I was driving the other day, I noticed a woman hanging up clothes on a clothesline. It struck me that this very common activity was somehow unusual, in that I had not seen anyone hang out clothes in a ...

Faith and Family

Someone asked me the other day about a friend of theirs who told them they were not religious, they were “spiritual”. They asked me what that meant. I have often run into people who have told me very proudly that they were spiritual and not religious. There is a distinct difference. Often ...

Magnificent Mozart

MARQUETTE — Marquette Choral Society will present its Magnificent Mozart concerts at 7:30 p.m., April 25; and 3 p.m., April 26, in Kaufman Auditorium in Marquette. The singers will perform Mozart’s famed Coronation Mass in C Major and Mozart’s Vesperae solonnes de confessore. The ...

ROTC subdued ODU gunman

NORFOLK VA. — In a dramatic video shared online by the Army ROTC, cadets at Virginia’s Old Dominion University are recounting how they stabbed and disarmed a gunman targeting their classroom, then frantically tried to save the life of the wounded instructor who grappled with the ...