Tony Snow, Catholic, Dead at 53
Tony Snow, journalist and aide to two presidents, died on Saturday at the age of 53.
Tony Snow, journalist and aide to two presidents, died on Saturday at the age of 53.
Ingrid Betancourt plainly thought God had a hand in her liberation, but the signs went unremarked in most news coverage.
It was May 1944, and 22-year-old John Whitehead of Montclair, N.J., an ensign on the USS Thomas Jefferson, was placed in charge of five of the landing craft for the invasion of Europe.
When Harriet McBryde Johnson died earlier this month at the age of 50 from a congenital neuromuscular disease, obituaries called her a "disability-rights activist." This is far too narrow a description of her life.
On his way to an academic and political career, Father Raymond de Souza, made a right turn into religion, journalism ... and chaplaincy of the football Golden Gaels.
When somebody dies, we tell his story and try to define and isolate what was special about it--what it was he brought to the party, how he enhanced life by showing up.
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.