The story of a Catholic father dying to save his son started being told in a small town in Virginia. Then on the front page of the The Washington Post. Then it began to be repeated on blogs and in online discussions from coast to coast.
What I witnessed that day was one of the most remarkable moments of Christian reconciliation I am likely to ever see.
Someone should write the life of Margaret Beaufort, as an example of how a woman of strong beliefs can survive a traumatic childhood and become a credit and exemplar to society. She ought indeed to be canonised, and I commend her cause to the present Pope, who also loves good Christian academics.
Cardinal James Stafford reflects on how dissenters to Humane Vitae tore the Church apart -- and how that rift left scars that remain to this day.
For at least a dozen years, beginning in 1962, he seemed nothing less than the bravest man in the world.
In 1988, 16-year-old Piyush Jindal totaled his father's new car a few weeks before graduating from Baton Rouge High School.
The largest single event in the history of Australia -- as with many countries, a papal event -- concluded with a rejuvenated Catholic community and the prospect of a softening in the hard edge of Australian secularism.
In turns out that Sydney may play a decisive role in how those Anglican disputes are worked out.
"Tim wore his Catholicism proudly. He talked about it all the time," noted NBC anchor Brian Williams.
