Tim Russert, Catholic, dead at 58
Tim Russert, moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, died Friday June 13, at the age of 58.
Tim Russert, moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, died Friday June 13, at the age of 58.
Fate may have led Irena Sendler to the moment almost 70 years ago when she began to risk her life for the children of strangers.
I was privileged to count him as a friend for well over a quarter century.
Catholic Bishop Macram Gassis faces the challenge of a return to Sudan.
According to a title first used by Gregory the Great (590604), the Bishop of Rome is the "Servant of the Servants of God."
It has been said in Rome that the crowds came to see Pope John Paul, but they come to hear Pope Benedict XVI.
You grew up in the country as the youngest of three children. Your father was a constable, the family poor rather than well-off. Your mother, you once recounted, even made her own soap.
What made him such a great and rare figure was that he was not content to be celebrated as a cultural icon for playing roles like Moses, Ben-Hur, Michelangelo, and others. He was willing to risk scorn and ridicule to be a countercultural icon as well.
John Paul made you burst into tears. Benedict makes you think. It is more pleasurable to weep, but at the moment, perhaps it is more important to think.