In Praise of Roger Maris, the Anti-Bonds
Where have you gone, Roger Maris? Baseball should turn its downcast eyes to you.
Where have you gone, Roger Maris? Baseball should turn its downcast eyes to you.
The founder of L'Arche has spent nearly a lifetime championing the severely disabled.
The founder of L'Arche has spent nearly a lifetime championing the severely disabled.
I shall remember Saturday 20 January 2006. What it was like elsewhere I do not know, but in west Somerset it was the perfect winters day.
As baseball fans religiously record statistics, Bowie Kent Kuhn (19262007) was, at 42, the youngest commissioner of baseball ever; the tallest, at six-foot-five; and the heaviest, at 250 pounds, though his height made him seem slim.
Visitors to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris will soon be able to ponder a commemorative marker carrying this inscription:
People are often surprised when the Catholic Church keeps at arm's length phenomena that appear to be supernatural whether it's weeping statues or apparitions of the Virgin Mary.