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"Is forgiveness and being forgiven an important part of gratitude?" I was asked this question around the same time that Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, an...
I cried and cried and cried on the night of Feb. 27, 2008. I'm not sure anyone ever did that while watching Charlie Rose on PBS before. But there I...
New York City -- "The light's gone from his eyes." It was 2000, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, was in full campaign mode. As...
For all our busy-ness, we have too much time on our hands. Some of the most recent evidence is the controversy and commentary (guilty!) over the He...
It's near-impossible to walk the streets of Manhattan -- or any other major American city -- without running into a woman on the sidewalk begging for...
"Our hearts are so tender. All of our emotions right at the surface. Laughter. Tears. Closer than ever." That line is spoken in the new season of "The...
The last thing Ryan Realbuto did in his life on earth was praise God. He did this the Thursday before the New Hampshire primary and the day before the...
Washington, D.C. -- "My mother told me that she tried to induce a miscarriage by jumping off chairs and trunks." The late former New York City mayor...
Last week, a young woman who never thought she would make it to 40 years died at 41. Her message to the world was about remembering that we are all...
I hate that politics and media are the main venues for discussing abortion. As you may know, if you've read my column before, ending abortion is a...
Harold Gomes wanted us all to be brave. "A warrior" is how his sister described him, but one who as "tender" and "authoritative," she said before his...
A baby, a mother and a father. They are at the heart of the Christmas season. And, yet, as Mary Eberstadt points out in her book “How the West...
"Christian, remember your dignity." Pope Leo I, or Pope Leo the Great, as he's also known, ruled in the mid-fifth century, but his words have plenty...
"We are basket cases of ingratitude, so many of us," National Review magazine founder William F. Buckley remarked in a 1988 speech. It's easy for the...
She was a refugee from Somalia, where she was subject to genital mutilation. A man she worked with on a documentary was killed, and she was warned she...
I used to think that almost everyone celebrated their birthday, even if it were only via messages on Facebook. But from the Sisters of Life in New...
The lyrics for Britney Spears "Everytime" have a whole new meaning now. In her new memoir, "The Woman in Me," the pop star writes about the abortion...
"A baby, an infant, riddled with bullets. Soldiers beheaded. Young people burned alive. I could go on, but it's simply depravity in the worst...
I never encountered Father William Holt -- Billy Holt, as some who loved him referred to him -- without smiling. His joy was contagious. Holt died in...
ORLANDO -- There are recent American college graduates teaching in Iraq, due to an exchange program between the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil...
Malcolm Muggeridge noticed that Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity religious sisters in India radiated joy. "I have been immensely struck...