A bishop in one of Sudans most war-damaged regions has spoken of the peoples renewed sense of hope in a diocese where Catholics have trebled in number.

Perhaps there are football gods after all.

Professional football was long considered a Catholic sport, drawing rugged players from the working class blue-collar immigrant families of which a good percentage were at least culturally Catholic.

Shortly before Thanksgiving, 1986, Henry Hyde's prostate started acting up, so he spent the holiday in Georgetown University Hospital.

Who would have dared think that a hundred years after France led Europe into its secularist blind alley that a French president would sound the call to a kind of spiritual recalibration of Europe?

It would be hard to think of anyone whose portrayal in the media differs more radically from the reality than that of Justice Clarence Thomas.

Look at that curve in the River of Ch'i With the green bamboos so luxuriant. The Book of Songs (Waley)

Last week Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City, made front-page news across the country with his open letter asking forgiveness for the sins of the past.

Where have you gone, Roger Maris? Baseball should turn its downcast eyes to you.

Anthony Esolen on the Divine Music of an Autistic Son.