Human Rights to Dominate Pope's U.S. visit
It has been said in Rome that the crowds came to see Pope John Paul, but they come to hear Pope Benedict XVI.
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.
The key to all that William was and did is that wherever he was and whatever he did, reading a book or writing one, opening a bottle of wine or sailing some sea, he was near Jerusalem.
We came first to pray for William F. Buckley, Jr., and then to praise him.
A few times a day I hear myself tell my toddler daughter, "Put that down. That's Daddy's." And she puts it down — the memento or the fragile bauble or the prized book.
Journalist says his was a personal journey, not a political act.
The remarkable Indian Christian philosopher Ravi Zacharias tells a compelling story of his encounter with a white, liberal American academic who had embraced Buddhism.