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The snow is melting. I hate to say that too loud for fear that Winter will hear my delight and make his white and cold snow pile up again. I also know when the warmth is even sneaking into our area, I begin to see bare legs in shorts, mostly younger males shopping in the same aisle as me in ...

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 ...

Young men’s religious revival

A new Gallup poll released earlier this month shows more young men in the U.S. say religion is “very important” in their lives compared to young women — the first time young men have surpassed young women on this measure of religiosity going back 25 years. Gallup’s latest data shows ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...