If you don’t know former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, he’s the first to tell you these days that he wasn’t ready for the fight of Washington, in some respects. He wasn’t a politician – honestly, the man is a nerd in the best of ways. He believed in the nobility of public service. During his time in office, he was America’s muchneeded civics teacher. Sasse is currently dying of cancer. He may not have long to live. These are precious months for, as Sasse understands it, “redeeming the time.”
This is the question Catholic bishops are asking one another, according to Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. is “what is your number?” He was quoted in a New York Times pieces covering the mystery of consistently new, and young, Catholics, people coming into the Church at Easter time. Easter marks 1,755 new sheep in his flock this year, which continues from last year’s 1,566, “which had already been the highest number in at least 15 years, according to the archdiocese’s records,” the Times featured. Throughout the country, there are similar increases.
(AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand over records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination but said it did not have to reveal any employee’s affiliation with a specific group.
When most of us think of our birthdays, we probably have flashbacks to childhood.
Episcopal Church leaders have long heard warning sirens in their annual reports, with brutal statistics supporting this reality: They have lost half of their members since the 1960s.
The Scriptural mandate, “pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” seems appropriate given recent events in Iran: the U.S.-Israeli strikes and especially the demise of the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. When violence explodes in one area of the Middle East, the whole region can become a powder keg. And there are innocent casualties.
Father Michael’s question, “have you told the women?” disarmed Martha Reichert – and changed her life.
E un-man was born with cerebral palsy. He spent 14 years in a hospital, and many people are grateful for it.
In the final months of her life, Sister Thea Bowman heard the whispers.
There was nothing unusual about Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee meeting with singer Jelly Roll before pardoning him for the felony robbery and drug-related crimes in his past.